I am totally digging a new site called Management Innovation eXchange. It’s a bold attempt to throw away everything we now do around management and fully rethink it using the essence of the web as inspiration for how we can work together in the future. If you care about bringing out the best in yourself and others, then actively exploring new approaches to collaborating, learning, and growing needs to be job one.
“Think of it as an intensified version of what we do every day on the MIX. And to share some of that work in progress, here’s a list of twelve core management 2.0 principles distilled from some 40 the hackers explored (and a few videos from me describing some positive deviants putting these principles into action):
- Openness (video link)
- Community
- Meritocracy
- Activism
- Collaboration
- Meaning (video link)
- Autonomy (video link)
- Serendipity (video link)
- Decentralization
- Experimentation
- Speed
- Trust”
Here’s my favourite quote from the article. It totally nails it: “The good news is that we now have a viable alternative to the management status quo. Thanks to the Web, we can imagine organizations that are large but not bureaucratic, focused but not myopic, efficient but not inflexible and disciplined but not dispiriting. Of course, the Web has its limits, but it is a relentlessly productive seed bed for new organizational forms–where coordination happens without centralization, where power is the product of contribution rather than position, where the wisdom of the many trumps the authority of the few, where novel and dissenting viewpoints get amplified rather than squelched, where communities form spontaneously around shared interests, where opportunities to “opt-in” blur the line between vocation and hobby, where performance is judged by your peers, and where influence comes from sharing information, not from hoarding it.”
Picture credit: Artem Beliaikin