Hidden Mojo

Robert Paterson has a fascinating interview with a couple of guys from silverorange. silverorange is a team of web developers based out of Prince Edward Island in Canada. The guys there seem to have taken a very democratic, egalitarian approach to building their company.
In their own words, when 7 guys founded the company […]

Bob Sutton has an excellent post about the value of well-designed systems. The weak link in organizations are often the systems, which incentivize counter-productive behaviors. This leads to behavior that is both unproductive for a company, and demotivating for employees.
And when 73% of employees are disengaged at work, it appears that there are a […]

Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom have a book coming out in early October called The Starfish and the Spider. The book is about how decentralized organizational structures makes for more agile organizations:
‘If you cut off a spider’s leg, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a […]

Recently, World Blu CEO Traci Fenton wrote an op-ed piece entitled Democracy in the Workplace, where she lays out a compelling case for building a democratic organization.
In such organizations, information flows freely, everybody is a leader in a given context, transparency reigns, conversations and collaboration happen constantly, decision-making is decentralized, accountability is the order of […]