The Hacks
Hacks
To tackle big, thorny challenges, you need big, unconventional ideas.
That’s what you’ll find here: boundary-pushing proposals for changing the way organizations work and leaders lead — from setting strategy to allocating resources to designing work to rewarding and compensating individuals.
Check out the disruptive ideas and radical fixes posted by your fellow MIXers below — and join them in stirring the pot by proposing your own. A hack can be as seemingly basic as a better way to run meetings or as high-stakes as a complete overhaul of the compensation system — as long as it turns the tables on management-as-usual and offers up a pathway to progress on one of the moonshots.
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A dynamic collection of bold ideas proposed by the MIX community
A provocative research finding is that 75-90% of all large organizational projects fail to meet their original objectives, (Patterson et al. (2006)). The same research suggests human practices... Read more
By Michael Lennon on January 11, 2012
16 Comments
Outside the world of academics popular culture splendidly captured the corporate imperative with the clarion call of “Show me the money!” That demand is more incessant today with an ever... Read more
By János Pál NÉMETH of Edutus College; Budapest, Hungary on December 15, 2011
0 Comments
As the centers of gravity in terms of economics, demography, and geopolitics become increasingly diverse, most of today’s managerial practices will be found lacking by the second decade of the 21st... Read more
By Amnon Danzig on November 3, 2011
3 Comments
The Deliberative Corporation is a technology-supported process for sustainable decision-making. It allows any organization or governing group to consult its population. The process builds trust... Read more
By James Fishkin of Stanford University on August 23, 2011
59 Comments
The World of Work is changing, but who is driving the change?
Leadership in the the 'New World of Work' should focus your transition efforts on work. Not work/life balance. Not better pay and... Read more
By Bruce Morton of Allegis Group Services on November 11, 2011
1 Comments
The Deliberatorium is a software tool designed to help organizations better harvest the knowledge and incorporate the perspectives of their members to identify solutions for complex problems,... Read more
By Mark Klein of MIT Center for Collective Intelligence on September 3, 2011
28 Comments
In the knowledge era, we still have no real way to encode and share knowledge, the DNA of a modern organization.
The WHY Code is a fundamental way to unblock organizational knowledge flow, empowering... Read more
By Trevor Davies of Knowledge Genes on December 11, 2011
5 Comments
The idea of driving the personal growth of independent sales contractors to achieve more sales, especially when you will be using their targets to be communicated from the bottom up in determining... Read more
By Gerhard Verwey on July 17, 2011
2 Comments
People and the WWW share common “deep values.” Sandwiched in between are Management 1.0 (& aspiring 2.0) Organizations and Software Applications that ride the www. These 4 “layers”... Read more
By Deb Krizmanich of Powernoodle on July 18, 2011
7 Comments
Some say with relief that the old economy’s gone. Other’s say that new markets may never emerge. I say that leaders can invigorate wealth and open opportunities in at least 10 amazing areas. So what... Read more
By Ellen Weber of MITA International Brain Center on September 21, 2011
4 Comments
