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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

Traditional management implies someone higher in the hierarchy is managing my performance. People can only manage their own performance.
Hack by Peter Bunce on November 8, 2012
Every innovation will have a measurable impact on any given process, hence make it a point to measure the impact of such innovation to emphasize the benefit it passes on to the organization, society e
Hack by Ananda kumar on November 14, 2012
Innovation requirers shrinking the size of an organization into manageable piece.  Innovating and the culturization of that innovation can happen more effectively in smaller environments.
Hack by Eric Curtis on November 20, 2012
Co-Authored By Eric Curtis
License to failYears ago I read a book called “Teaching the Elephant to Dance.” The key concept in the book is captured in this metaphor the author describes.Apparently when elephants are trained in a
Hack by Sridhar Ramanathan on November 20, 2012
As outline Innovation only happens when a company culture values and supports innovative b
Hack by siobhan O'keeffe on November 21, 2012
Top executives’ tentatively agree on the BIG Rocks (strategic changes).  Then provide the Big Rocks to managers and staff and ask them to identify what they think are the Big Rocks.  The res
Hack by George Neufeld on November 27, 2012
There are many good people out there who are trying to do something about the woeful state of the strong wool industry.  Synthetics have spanked wool in the market place in price and promotion, y
Hack by Angela McFetridge on December 8, 2012
Innovation has become a buzzword behind which too many bureaucrats are doing their worst.Innovation should not be considered and treated as a goal in itself, but as the means to the goal - de
Hack by Dr. Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu on December 12, 2012
Empowering enterprise wide innovation through a unique, no-cost, non-intrusive software technology solution.
Hack by Matthew Heffron on December 17, 2012
Co-Authored By JD Wilson Jr
In order to MOVE innovation in organizations we need to encourage the process of hate, love and utopia.
Hack by Caine Thompson on December 18, 2012
A successful organisation should have the base ingredients for innovation – intelligent, energetic and motivated people.  The organisation then has a choice, empower or constrain.  The type
Hack by Phil Bedford on December 18, 2012

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