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Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre posted Tweet a Hack: The Results Are In!

2 years 10 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre posted Tweet a Hack Contest: Help us "Take the Work out of Work"—in 140 characters or less!

3 years 1 week ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre posted Here’s Your Chance to Take the (Main) Stage as a Management Innovator

3 years 4 weeks ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Nollywood Paradigm: A New Model for Progress in sub-Saharan Africa?

Hi Tarry, Thanks for this fascinating post! It's so crucial to tell the stories of people and institutions that are not only creating great products (stories, in this case), but also creating a new w... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on A smart leader rather than an ethical leader can be most succesful.

Thanks very much for your contribution. It's an interesting question--I would hope that we wouldn't have to choose between the two qualities! I would certainly push back on the idea that ethics and fa... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Commiterate to solve dilemmas

Brian (or should I say The Commiterator?), thanks for your great story. Your approach to tackling problems and testing ideas is not only practical and methodical, but open-minded and mindful in ways t... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Work-Thrus: Leveraging Collective Knowledge to Create Extraordinary Performance

Rod, Thanks so much for this great story. You've made me even more curious about the combined mechanism of the Work-Thru and Town Hall Conference Call. Were those tools used in other ways across BCBS-... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Resilience through Smallness

This is a great mind-flip. Just to put a finer point on it: are you suggesting that the "barrier" here is the tendency to equate BIGNESS with SUCCESS (excellence, greatness, etc.) when a more useful f... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Do we really need a CEO?

Great question! And it's one a CEO here on the site is asking himself: check out MIX Maverick Vineet Nayar (CEO of HCL Technologies) new post on the questions he asks himself on a regular basis. One o... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on The Bossless Organization: From Bosses to Mentor Investors

Tory, thanks for this great hack. You flesh out so many of the key shifts and mind flips required to recast our organizations as more human, inspiring, adaptable, and innovative. It's an important vis... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Pallapupas and the transformative power of diversity

Francisco, I'm intrigued. I'm not familiar with the work of Pallapuas. Can you tell us more about how this initiative came about, the organizations that employ these clowns, how they actually interact... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Inclusive Leadership in the 21st Century - Key to Sustainability

This is an important and urgent topic. You've set a stake in the ground--now I wonder if you could flesh this out to offer up a STORY of an innovation that moves the ball forward on this topic. Have y... More

3 years 1 month ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre posted You can't win if you don't play (but everybody who plays, wins)!

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Management Phatics

This is a really thoughtfully fleshed out barrier. I wonder if another pathway (beyond your suggestion of standardization and individual training) is to tackle the root of the problem in our overly la... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Performance Evaluations

This is a critical barrier to tackle. I fully take your point that transparency and openness are two keys to a positive, productive, and creative culture. I wonder, though, if there's a third way betw... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Business Sales Pitch Presentations - Focus on the larger purpose of your operations

It's absolutely the case that a distinct and robustly articulated sense of purpose can be a magnet for both customers and employees. I wonder if this is less about "targeting" and "segmenting" and mor... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Should we report with document?

Your fellow MIXer has a similar idea: http://www.managementexchange.com/content/no-contracts I think this is a great question—I'd love to hear more about how you would propose going about this ki... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on No contracts!

What would be the first step in getting people to shed the mountain of documents? Have you ever seen anything like this in practice? I think in general, getting rid of paperwork in all situations is a... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Create a strawman and iterate

We're definitely fans of iterating early and often at the MIX. In fact we're doing it right now with the site! I'm curious about how this has worked in the context of an actual project. Can you tel... More

3 years 2 months ago

Polly LaBarre Polly LaBarre commented on Disrupting paradigms

I'm a huge fan of the "fresh eyes" theory of work. The business world is so in awe of the experience curve (the more you do something--whether it's make circuit boards or develop tv shows) the better ... More

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Inventing the Future Together: Introducing the Hackathon Pilot

Why can't we build organizations that are as resilient, inventive, inspiring, and accountable--as human--as the people who work within them? That's the driving question behind and the dream fueling the MIX. Of course, it's not just our dream--it's the shared dream of...

By Polly LaBarre on March 10, 2022

communities of passion

hackathon

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Announcing the Winners of the HCI Human Capital M-Prize

Last night at the Human Capital Institute Summit in Atlanta, the MIX team announced the winners of the first Human Capital M-Prize.

We are delighted to share

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By Polly LaBarre on March 9, 2022

management innovation

We Want Your Vote—And Your Ideas!

As we close out the semifinal round of the HCI Human Capital M-Prize, we wanted to offer up a quick take on each of the entries in the running—and encourage all of you to rate the entries, add your ideas and questions in the comments field.

These contributions

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By Polly LaBarre on February 18, 2022

Leadership

management innovation

M-Prize

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When Best Practices Aren't Good Enough—Putting the Performance Review on Review

It's one of the toughest—and most important—questions in business: How do you mobilize and unleash the best gifts of every single person in your organization? And how do you create an environment and systems for work that ignite extraordinary passion, imagination, and initiative?

Few leaders would...

By Polly LaBarre on February 15, 2022

10 Ways to Unleash the Best and Ignite Passion in Your People

We’re delighted to announce the semifinalists for the HCI Human Capital M-Prize—a rich set of bold and original Hacks and inspiring and instructive Stories.

We asked MIXers to tackle one of the toughest—and most important questions in the realm of management innovation: How do you mobilize and unleash...

By Polly LaBarre on January 31, 2022

M-Prize

talent

communities of passion

Moving Past Austerity—Let's Make 2011 the Year of Honesty, Humanity and Generosity

The authorities at Merriam-Webster have declared “austerity” the defining word of 2010. That may be an appropriate reaction to all that’s transpired this year (and built up over this decade), but the word—and, more to the point, the feeling—that permeates this shabby, hangdog year is loss.
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By Polly LaBarre on December 30, 2021

Goldman Sachs

Innovation

Seth Godin

new year's resolutions

social responsibility

defining values and aspirations

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Building a Better Boss with Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton is one of the most provocative, practical, and profoundly human thinkers and writers in the realm of management today. He’s written five important books over the last decade about closing the gap between knowledge and organizational action, evidence-based (rather than faith- or fear-based) management), and how...

By Polly LaBarre on December 3, 2021

Announcing the M-Prize Winners: Audacity, Imagination, Experimentation

We have a big dream here at the MIX: to create organizations that are fit for the future--and fit for human beings. It's an aspiration that calls for nothing less than what the philosopher and reformer John Dewey described as a "new audacity of imagination." While "modern" management has delivered an immense contribution to global prosperity, the values driving our most powerful institutions today are fundamentally at odds with those of this age--zero-sum thinking, profit-obsession, power, conformance, control, hierarchy, and obedience don't stand a chance against community, interdependence, freedom, flexibility, transparency, meritocracy, and self-determination. It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

By Polly LaBarre on November 22, 2021

Welcome to the MIX Moonshot Guides

We're delighted to introduce our first three MIX Moonshot Guides—folks who've emerged from the MIX community and beyond as important contributors when it comes to making progress on the management moonshots. As with most things on the MIX, this is an evolving experiment and our Moonshot...

By Polly LaBarre on October 28, 2021

take the work out of work

open innovation

moonshot

communities of passion

Meet the New MIX—and M-Prize News

The competition for the world’s first management innovation prize has officially closed—and the judging has begun! We’d like to send out a hearty thanks to the hundreds of MIXers who poured their bold thinking and tremendous effort into crafting STORIES and HACKS aimed at tackling the moonshots of Increasing Trust, Reinventing Leadership, and Taking the Work out of Work. We are inspired and energized by the sheer variety and originality of the submissions—and we and our panel of Mavericks are hard at work on the difficult task of choosing just a few winners.