Doing Good Works Podcast

Kurt and Julia, both Professor in Strategic Management, talk about how smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. In other words: strategy ideation, - formulation and - execution the unbossed way!

Jean Francois Zobrist became managing director of FAVI, a metalworking company in Hallencourt, northern France, in 1983. He opted for a radically different approach with massive success. In this conversation we discuss the 4 main changes he made in the organization:1. Employees do not work by the hour, nor for a salary. They work for the love of the customer. 2. Switch from forecast and control to trust.3. Structure the organization into micro-enterprises.4. Install relative objectives, in stead of numerical, at micro-enterprise level.

Fujitsu Europe is experimenting with the micro-enterprise concept in spring 2020 inspired by Haier's Rendanheyi Model. One year later, results look promising—employees are more engaged, customers more satisfied, and business results have skyrocketed. 

This conversation with Joao Domingos is one of the most practical how-to unboss episodes so far. What you will learn:

1. Why did they choose for the Rendanheyi principles? 
2. Where did they start? 
3. How did Joao's role as "middle manager" in a global organization change? 
4. How important is it to get support from your N+1? 
5. Where are they now in the journey?
6. What are the differences between leading a micro-enterprise organization and a traditional organization?
7. What about internal departments like Finance and HR? 
8. How did organization structures and renumeration systems change? And much more!

Nina is a biomedical engineer currently working as eHealth projects director at the French Ministry of Health. She's also the driving source behind "Open Opal", the French community for Teal Organization. 

The three main topics we discuss are: 

1. concrete examples of unbossing in heavy regulated healthcare businesses. 
2. What is a company purpose, and is the purpose owned by the leader? 
3. Can every organization evolve and how do you start?

Maura delivers us the perfect playbook on how to build - and sustain! - the Unbossed Team of the future. Maura is a force of nature and owner of international recruitment agency STAFF Europe Recruitment & Consulting specialized in Executive Search.  

Learn from the transformation of the Vietnamese-French company Officience, guided by Frederic Laloux himself, from a typical command-and-control organization to an unbossed organization with clusters, self-organized salary processes and liquified internal communication. CEO Duc also explains in detail how he developed from a traditional CEO to an unbossed leader. 

Julie takes us on an insightful journey on what power is, how it’s gained and lost, and how it can be used for good. This episode will make you rethink some of our most basic assumptions about influence. 

Learn everything about the employee of the future: the passionate explorer. Those who want to have meaning-full impact in a specific area, those who see unexpected challenges as opportunities for having impact and those who connect with others to have more impact, faster. 

In John's study a staggering 86% of the US Workforce doesn't identify themselves at work with this definition. So yeah, John, Thomas and myself talk about what we can do to change this.