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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

How do things get done round here? What happens when the boss is away? These two questions can be answered with an understanding of an organisation’s culture and leadership.
Hack by Sue Seymour on December 15, 2011
Let organisations come up with a plan to out-source management so that use of self-management teams can be increased. This will lead to higher return on investments for owners of the business.
Hack by Lewis Banda on December 15, 2011
Liberating bureaucracies from their shackle and chains demands new models of leadership and action from all!  Decentralising bureaucracies will provide a significant competitive advantage by buil
Hack by Randal Southee on December 16, 2011
Seven hundred thousand children were neglected and/or abused in the U.S.
Hack by Kathleen Feely on December 16, 2011
Unless we change the story we won't change anything fundamental.Our stories keep us doing what we're already doing or open up new possibilites for action.
Hack by Mark Addleson on December 17, 2011
Forget Taylor's scientific principles, reinvent new, simple, easy to understand principles that fit to the new era we're entering.
Hack by Louis Dietvorst on December 20, 2011
When you go to a hospital, who cares for you? As a patient, you will see physicians, nurses, and maybe a few medical assistants or lab techs. There is a lot more going on beind the scenes, though.
Hack by Sonja Dieterich on December 21, 2011
Instead of just assigning tasks to employees that end up being a grind, get to know employees and give them work that fits with their interests, talents, and motivations.
Hack by Orin Davis on December 23, 2011
Perfection can destroy your business!Only 3 takes in the studio, is a showdown with the tyranny of the guided hand and the perfection that reigns in businesses today.
Hack by Thomas Geuken on December 23, 2011
Too much process oriented work culture slows down the whole transaction. In my radiology department in a cancer hospital I have discarded all processes which have more than five checks.
Hack by Arvind Chaturvedi on December 23, 2011
At the speed in which the economies and the markets advance, so employees needs do, and the theories on the future of the administration of human resources come up with different types of alternatives
Hack by Julio Jesus Sanchez on December 27, 2011
By pooling resources through collaborative consulting, freelancers and independent professionals can make substantial gains in increasing customer value, competitiveness and their bottom lines.
Hack by Wayne Bishop on January 4, 2012
The two most important factors in having a dynamic and free organization are leadership and culture and climate. All the other seven are subsumed in the two.
Hack by Leodegardo Pruna on January 13, 2012

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