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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

Bureaucracy - almost by definition - is when the process overtakes the objective.I have now worked at a number of extremely bureaucratic organisations and can attest to the following formula to break
Hack by Riaan Steenberg on October 25, 2011
In Corporate Strategy at NBCUniversal, I believe what we do matters.
Hack by Benjamin Decker on September 17, 2011
Set clear objectives to foster trust and sense of ownership therefore incentivizing managers to act as business owners, hence maximizing value creation
Hack by Albert Canela on December 9, 2010
Karma is not just a word heard on the yoga mat.
Hack by Beth Shaw on March 26, 2012
Where did you learn the things that have helped you the most?  For most the answer is at work.
Hack by Jane Patterson on November 28, 2010
Manage Without Them is a complete disagreegation of management to allow integration of technology and peer to peer collaboration without loss of governance.
Hack by Matthew De George on May 26, 2011
I recently interviewed Arie Versluis where he discussed how a more traditional design leads to a complex organization with simple tasks, while a socio-technical design leads to a simple orga
Hack by Dustin Mattison on March 22, 2011
Society is calling for a new breed of business leaders who are able to bring a whole set of considerations in the society.
Hack by Tanveer Awan on November 7, 2010
If at all a CEO is the one who defines, constructs and drives the company structure, in reality there is Silos among the employees on what actually is the progression of the company.
Hack by Siva Westlife on March 3, 2011
What happened to the original investor that was truly intersted in the wellbeing of the company he/she invested in? Investors today seem to go for the quick profit only.
Hack by Ben Smits' on February 28, 2012
The capitalist drive to create new technology, design new products and pursue new opportunities has had some very positive results for society.
Hack by Shaun Neeley on October 3, 2012
It remains evidentthere are fewer women at senior levels in our organisations.  It has also beenproven time and again that selection decision making is far from the robust,fair meritocracy that i
Hack by Adrian Terry on May 24, 2011
Modern organisations need to communicate more successfully with employees by harnessing the power of web technology and social networking sites.
Hack by Christian Driscoll on October 4, 2011
Whatever the idea, however one collaborates, we always have to communicate with one another.
Hack by Sridhar Dhulipala on September 6, 2012

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