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Hacks

To tackle big, thorny challenges, you need big, unconventional ideas.

That’s what you’ll find here: boundary-pushing proposals for changing the way organizations work and leaders lead — from setting strategy to allocating resources to designing work to rewarding and compensating individuals.

Check out the disruptive ideas and radical fixes posted by your fellow MIXers below — and join them in stirring the pot by proposing your own. A hack can be as seemingly basic as a better way to run meetings or as high-stakes as a complete overhaul of the compensation system — as long as it turns the tables on management-as-usual and offers up a pathway to progress on one of the moonshots.

The MIX Lab / Hacks

A dynamic collection of real-world case studies from the MIX community

We need to reduce the amount of rules used in the world of management in order to promote people's judgment and practical wisdom.
Hack by Elad Sherf on May 27, 2010
One of the challenges of faculty work is that, while there arelarge number of great faculty members out there, access to these facultymembers is limited to physical presence in the classroom; until no
Hack by Aaron Anderson on June 4, 2010
BREP would stand for: Back to basics; Rational expectations; customer Experience management; and Patterns management.
Hack by Ovidiu Slavoiu on June 25, 2010
In future - the world’s greatest creative work, music, screenplays, novels derive from truly global collaboration.
Hack by Marcus Salouk on July 10, 2010
Let people post their biggest mistakes each month on the company intranet. These posts are then reviewed by a revolving team to select the most glaring/dumb/obvious... mistake.
Hack by Sam Swaminathan on August 10, 2010
Once upon a time I was a member of (what I'll call) a commercialised start-up. We had spun out of a university faculty research project, & did an amazing job.
Hack by Jonty Monopoli on September 16, 2010
We the people, of your nameless, faceless organization, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this Hack for reinventing how leaders are promoted.
Hack by David Burkus on October 9, 2010
One elephant in the room is bad meetings. Managers spend approximately 50% of their time in meetings and they consistently report that 50% of that time is wasted.
Hack by Bob Wiele on October 15, 2010
The idea is that employees no longer work according to the job descriptions, but they bid for each task.
Hack by Fanfeng Si on November 30, 2010
How many innovations died within big corporations, whose managers failed to spot a breakthrough idea in unchartered seas of innovation portals and CTOs’ e-mail boxes?
Hack by LBS team 12 on January 9, 2011
“Take this job and share it!” addresses the knowledge transfer worries of workforce planners and leaders alike, and the work-life balance needs of Gen Y’ers and boomers (who share a d
Hack by Joy Kosta on January 20, 2011
The annual reports of many publicly listed entities proudly state that people are their greatest assets.
Hack by Kevin Turner on March 1, 2011
You get what you ask for. When companies ask the employees or customers if they are satisfied, they are also telling them that the goal is to make them satisfied.
Hack by Palle Ellemann on March 30, 2011
Real innovation is not built with greater isolation and introspection but is powered by smarter connections.
Hack by Andrew Armour on April 12, 2011

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