In her Forbes article "An International Perspective: Top Leadership Challenges for 2020" Sally Percy writes the following : The French challenge: liberating the workplace Liberté is engrained in the French national motto. Yet, the daily experience of French...
As AI expands, companies must allow employees to rethink their jobs
Here is our article in LSE Business Review Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the business world. It is not the first time that technologies have done so. Decision support systems, expert systems (already integrating AI) and knowledge management...
Michelin Transformation
I have followed Michelin's liberation-transformation, which it calls responsablisation, since 2013. That year, the company started its first experiment in allowing its 38 basic manufacturing teams from 18 plants to assume total autonomy and responsibility for running...
Sugata Mitra on how children can entirely self-teach
Traditional school is based on the teacher's authority and control of children learning process. The educational researcher Sugata Mitra has proven that children in rural India and many other places can be trusted with their learning and achieve the results at the...
Our Op-Ed in Management Today: Real leaders need to lose the ego
Real leaders need to lose the ego By Isaac Getz, Management Today, 13 Feb 2019 "The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food. It’s leadership without ego." So said Bob Davids, who has successfully led six companies in diverse industries for 40 years,...
Patty McCord (Netflix) on what happens when a company looks less to control and more to trust
We don't know whether Netflix is a liberated company and whether its CEO is a liberating leader. That said, its former chief talent officer Patty McCord has shown that her new title wasn't just a gimmick for the old-style HR. You can watch the TED session below and...
Our new book “Leadership without Ego” just released
Our new book written by Bob Davids, Brian Carney and Isaac Getz Leadership without Ego has been just released by Palgrave MacMilllan. Here is how the book is described on the front flap of its dust jacket: If you take a chain, pile it up and then push it, what...
Global Peter Drucker Forum 2018: Our speech on “Leadership without Ego”
On Nov 29-30, 2018 in Vienna took place the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum. We have participated in the plenary session "Human Potential - Are We Cracking the Code?" and talked about the liberating leadership inspired by our previous work and by the just released...
The Spanish edition of “Freedom, Inc.”
In our last blog post we have announced the release of our book's Italian edition. In this post we are happy to annouce the release of our book's Spanish edition. The book launch will be organized by the Institut Français in Barcelona on January 17, 2019. We'd like to...
The Italian edition of “Freedom, Inc.” has been launched
On October 8, Brian and Isaac have participated in the event launching the Italian edition of our book which has been organized by the think tank Bruno Leoni in Milano to whom we are grateful. We need to thank our publisher Joshua Volpara of GUERINI NEXT for all his...