The FreeSpeak system is a simple but powerful method to force the organization to self-improve and become more competitive while eliminating reliance on management.
In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation, a small non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects, turned the conventional approach to setting strategy on its head.
Governments and philanthropy combined don’t have enough resources to serve citizens’ needs. Private sector market forces are large enough, but business is stuck, narrowly focused on
DaviPlata is the first massive e-money platform in Latin America, and one of the first in the world, which was conceived initially as a solution to reach the bottom of the pyramid, but soon became the
When companies create quantifiable value for society as well as shareholders, those firms can be more profitable and become the foundation of a stronger portfolio.
In my ten years at Red Hat (the open source software pioneer), we had a very simple little cultural trick we used everywhere we could:We defaulted to open.What does this mean?
We are a small team. We don’t have time for status meetings. We can’t afford middle management. We have no tolerance for team members that don’t produce.
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
We’re delighted to announce the semifinalists for the Management 2.0 Challenge . In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a Story (a real-world case study of a single practice, an initiative, or a broad-based transformation) or a Hack (a disruptive idea, radical fix, or experimental design) that illustrates how the principles and tools of the Web can help to overcome the limits of conventional management and help to create Management 2.0.