Too many organizations are operating with a terminally creaky design for unleashing human potential, says Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Our newest MIX Maverick, Pink describes what's wrong with how we think about what makes people tick—and how to rethink what helps them soar.
This Story portrays how an electricity distributor, located in the poorest region of Brazil, generate incremental innovations on a large scale, increasing the gain value and purpose of doing good for
In a WSJ post I promised that I’d lay out a blueprint for building a company that’s as nimble as change itself—and I will, but first I’d like to share an anecdote about a simple experiment in workplace freedom. In most organizations, the decision-making freedoms of frontline employees are highly...
From cave paintings to moon landing, humankind has achieved amazing progress based on imaginary models, analysis and control of equilibrium-oriented systems broke up into their constituent parts
To increase employee satisfaction, build trust and retain talent during a post-product cycle reorganization (reorg), the Microsoft Lync Test team offered its employees the freedom to choose what they
MIX Maverick and Whole Foods founder John Mackey says to create high-trust organizations we need to create cultural processes, structures and strategies that allow human beings to reach their full potential.
My conversation with our newest MIX Maverick Andrew McAfee yielded all kinds of bracing insight when it comes to how we set strategy, structure work, unleash talent, and measure success. But I haven’t been able to shake one idea in particular he threw out at the end of our conversation as a...