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What makes the online community a more efficient workforce than one managed by a firm? The short answer is that communities are better at both identifying talented people and evaluating their output.

They downloaded the apps and set up accounts for good reasons, only to discover, with grim irony, that these services were beginning to undermine the very values that made them appealing in the first place: they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with ... See more

Organizations spent $359 billion globally on training in 2016. Employer-provided learning, development, mentorship, and coaching programs means that independent workers need to piece together these resources on their own. Startups like Walden, Knowable, HireClub, Skillshare, Udemy, and more are creating standalone learning and development resources... See more

The other thing we do that’s quite special, is at the beginning of the month we roll a dice. Why? To decide if we’re going to pay out a bonus. We payout when we roll the number six. One of the things that we teach people at Management 3.0 is that you pay out rewards unexpectedly because if you know when you’re going to get a bonus, some people tend... See more

Perhaps the most counterintuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.

These structures allow us to create a media company that functions more like a network than a hierarchy.