Reinventing Organizations
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the best introduction to self-management and new management paradigms.
What it is
Frederic Laloux presents his research on self-managing, purpose-driven organizations, followed by Q&A. He summarizes the findings of his book Reinventing Organizations and examples such as Buurtzorg.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2014 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec joelgascoigne · 2014-11 · on “Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?”
At Buffer we've started to move in this direction. I can highly recommend watching this video if you're interested in self-management and the idea of a new management paradigm: [this video] . Frederic's book by the same name also goes into further details and shares several example companies: Buurtzorg, AES, Morning Star, FAVI, RHD and others.
Recommends s3nnyy · 2014-11 · on “Mean People Fail”
I agree with PG on this trend. In "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux you'll get more evidence that lack of meanness leads to success: [this video] Particularly the example of Buurtzorg, a Dutch healthcare provider, is quite convincing: They went from 0% to 80% market-share by basically being less mean to their employees and clients. (This Ask-HN discussion is also related to this: [LINK] )
Recommends bcx · 2015-06 · on “Reinventing organizations (2014) [pdf]”
The author of this book wants readers to pay what they feel the book was worth to them. [LINK] So you if you end up downloading and reading the direct PDF link (the security through obscurity method is clearly failing here) I recommend paying what feels right to the author: You can watch a pretty good summary of the book here: [this video]
Cites schwax · 2020-09 · on “Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)”
A question I'm asking myself is: "What would it take for anarchism to work?" (See also: "What would it take for capitalism to work for everyone?") Some ideas to consider: 1. @visakanv on assholes: > Assholes make up about 1% of most groups, cause about 75% of the damage, and ruin everybody’s experience. [1] 2. Dale Pendell on a long-term formulation of anarchism he calls "Horizon Anarchism": > I want to see the president, when it comes time to sign a bill, even if the bill may be necessary, to recognize—instead of being proud of every piece of legislation that’s passed—to recognize that it represents a failure of our collective social nature. And, instead of giving away all these pens with f