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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

Ever heard of topsy-turvey? This is a thought about just that. How to turn an organisation on its head and to improve its prospects in our future business world.
Hack by Mark Laycock on December 31, 2010
This response specifically focuses on how compensation systems could be rebalanced to provide incentives for long-term value creation along with short term performance.
Hack by Andrew Burner on April 27, 2012
I have a strong belief that if any of the I-Bank Boards were told in 2006-2008 the key driver of their profits had been buying bonds from banks who had lent to people at the bottom end of the inc
Large global corporations with enormous wealth, power and resources have the ability to positively (or negatively) impact global change and increasingly they are doing so in the area of disaster relie
Hack by Melanie Mark-Shadbolt on October 3, 2012
Measure employee performance like a credit score.  Similar to someone missing a mortgage payment, but it’s more like missing a project deliverable.
Hack by John Heyliger on December 15, 2010
Replace “core competence” with “core value definition”.  By framing the context of an enterprise by the value it delivers, you widen the view of opportunities and markets that the enterprise can
Hack by Jeff Lloyd on January 3, 2013
One possible way to achieve a sucessfull DNA swap in an existing organisation, in order to switch from a personal power based hierarchy to a "natural" hierarchy, is what I call the "Ride the
Hack by Alberto da Silva on July 13, 2010
We hear only about Success stories! Create the worlds BIGGESTrepository or a web-portal of 'Screw-ups'. All disciplines, all languages,all nations and all $@%*  will be there.
Have organisations progressed through the legendary McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y to the present day Theory Z.
Hack by Enock Ndlovu on February 26, 2011
How about an organizational struture where where no one person is in charge, there are no secrets, and structures allow leaders to naturally emerge.
Hack by Adele Burnes on November 3, 2010
What if we can create a real Democratic management that allows Employees to "Elect" the C-Level Managers themselves?
Hack by Soo Wong on March 10, 2011
   Quality is not a myth in government nor institutionalizing a Quality Government (Q-Government) a far-fetched dream.
Hack by BUDS M. FERNANDO on November 27, 2011
Management education today is a ground for exploring new jargons, learning quantitative tools and  the abridged history of failures and success.
Hack by virender vyas on April 16, 2011
In a taxonomically organized world human resources are managed with structured approach: organizational graph, job role, job description, hierarchical or functional controls.In every day activity peop
Hack by Luca Grivet Foiaia on May 31, 2011
Recently I heard about Quirky process through a product design and eventual commercialization, and get to think how this model can help organizations to think about how to give their employees and R&a
Hack by Julio Jesus Sanchez on April 13, 2012

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