Firms need to give workers room to excel By Kaye Parker 9 JULY 2011 “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” That credo worked for William L. McKnight, the legendary leader of [...]

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Good leadership listens to lower ranks By Jay Robb 7 DECEMBER 2009 A customer’s waiting in line to rent a car at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, and losing his patience. The trainee behind the Avis service counter is struggling [...]

Bill Gore’s Formula for Failure Author’s Choice 24 August 2010 Rich Teerlink, author, with Lee Ozley, of More Than a Motorcycle, introduces a passage on how managers can empower their workforce, from Freedom, Inc., by Brian M. Carney and Isaac [...]

A warm review from the cold (Baltic) shore Eye On Europe, N°19 PUBLISHED 2010 Capitalism relies on the freedom of companies to conduct their businesses free from intervention and on the freedom of customers to choose products and services without [...]

Freedom Inc by Emma de Vita 20 April 2010 Emma de Vita reviews Brian Carney and Isaac Getz’s new book on employee autonomy The two authors of Freedom Inc: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, [...]

The Self-Management Institute newsletter’s review Freedom, Inc., a collaboration between Brian M. Carney, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and Isaac Getz, a professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School, makes a powerful case for building [...]

Liberating Leadership: Give Up Control for a Better Business An Interview with Author Brian Carney When journalist Brian Carney of the Wall Street Journal met business professor Isaac Getz, he knew Getz was on to something. “He was applying to [...]

When you liberate your employees, productivity and profit will follow by Alexander Deane 28 JANUARY  2010 WE LIVE in a society in which we’re always watched – not just by the state, but in the workplace, too. Keen to cut [...]

Freedom: the avenue to engagement by Harvey Schachter JANUARY 27, 2010 We celebrate freedom. We consider it a hallmark of our political and economic systems. Business leaders are quick with paeans to the freedom of the capitalist system, and the [...]