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leadership and management system he’d refined and used at Boeing to transform their culture from one of command and control to one marked by cohesiveness and collaboration.34
David Burkus • Best Team Ever: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams
This is the era of crisis management, and that means doing business is all about administering first aid to the wounded and cleaning up the mess, not about orderly execution of a plan or policy.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
O TRONO POR TRÁS DA MESA-REDONDA O TRABALHO DO GESTOR É DIRIGIR UM PROCESSO DE TOMADA DE DECISÕES QUE GARANTA QUE TODAS AS PERSPECTIVAS SEJAM CONSIDERADAS E, SE NECESSÁRIO, DAR O VOTO DE MINERVA E TOMAR A DECISÃ
Eric Schimdt • O coach de um trilhão de dólares: O manual de liderança do Vale do Silício (Portuguese Edition)
Leadership is not dogmatic about what the solution looks like and is willing to adapt to their customers’ needs.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
To help teams nonetheless get feedback on their performance, the company has come up with an interesting practice: every year in January, teams present a self-evaluation to a group of colleagues, which comprises Chris Rufer (the founder and president) and anyone else who cares to join. They are expected to talk candidly about what went well and wha
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
To adapt, companies must operate not as machines but as learning organisms, purposefully interacting with their environment and continuously improving, based on experiments and feedback.
Thomas Vander Wal • The Connected Company
Managing, by the former head of ITT, Harold Geneen.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
In this approach, the CEO decides in top-down fashion, with the old powers vested in their role of CEO, to take out an essential lever of power. Take out a key staff function like the planning department, or a layer of management—for example, the first line supervisors. Or, like Zobrist did at FAVI, remove a key management tool, like the punch cloc
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Although we are convinced that the decision maker framework is the most efficient and productive way to run a company, this isn’t necessarily the root of this change. At the very heart lies the idea of giving people control. Dennis Bakke writes that:
“Only if we’re in control, we can have fun doing... See more