2009 - Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth
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Author(s): | Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz |
Year: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Crown Business |
ISBN: | 978-0307409386 |
Number of pages: | 336 |
Cover: | Hardcover |
Size: | 17 x 24 cm |
Overview | |
The culture of freedom works–and Freedom, Inc. reveals the secrets of a successful business paradigm based on a trusting, nonhierarchical, liberated environment. By freeing up the individual initiative and risk-taking instincts of every employee, these companies showed they could dramatically outperform their rivals in an array of fiercely competitive industries. |
Summary | |
Introduction
1 “How” Companies and “Why” Companies: How Not to Run a Business
2 Are You Managing for the “Three Percent”? Exceptional Companies Do Not Confuse the
Exception with the Rule
3 From Artisans to Automatons: The Origins of the “How” Culture
4 Freedom Is Not Anarchy: A Liberated Company Must Have a Shared Vision
5 Why They Did It: Two Triggers of the Liberation Campaign
6 What’s Your (People’s) Problem? Building an Environment That Treats People As Equals
7 Liberating an Established Company: How to Reach Out Directly to Your People
8 From Motivation to Self-Motivation, Part One: Beyond Grace and Intrinsic Equality
9 From Motivation to Self-Motivation, Part Two: Work and Management Practices That
Nourish
10 In Search of Lost Boots: The Big Payoff from Letting People Self-Direct and Grow
11 The Anti-Mad Men: One Man’s Quest for Peace and Liberty in Advertising
12 The Secret of Liberating Leadership: How Paradoxes and Wisdom Help Freedom
13 The Ultimate Paradox: The Culture of Happiness as a Path to World-Class Performance
14 Butterflies in Formation: Sustaining Freedom Over Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
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