The Management Moonshots are the heart and soul of the MIX — a roster of make-or-break challenges designed to focus the energies of management innovators everywhere. They emerged in response to a simple but profoundly urgent question: What needs to be done to create organizations that are fit for the future?

Mend the Soul

• Focus the work of management on a higher purpose
• Embed the ethos of community and citizenship
• Humanize the language of business

Unleash Capability

• Increase trust, reduce fear
• Reinvent the means of control
• Amplify imagination
• Enable communities of passion
• Capture the advantage of diversity
• Take the work out of work

Foster Renewal

• Make direction setting bottom-up and outside-in
• Experiment more often and more cheaply
• Create internal markets for ideas, talent & resources
• De-politicize decision-making
• Disaggregate the organization

Expand Minds

• Enlarge the frame of management education
• Retool management for an open and borderless world
• Rethink the philosophical foundations of management

Distribute Power

• Build "natural," flexible hierarchies
• Redefine the work of leadership
• Create a democracy of information
• Expand the scope of employee autonomy
• Encourage the dissenters

Seek Balance

• Develop holistic performance measures
• Transcend traditional management trade-offs
• Stretch management timeframes and perspectives