The short answer is: very collaborative. Strategic planning requires hearing from all levels of the organization; leaders, managers, co-workers, and employees. And at the end…
Join us later today for an #OpenOrgChat about open organizations' greatest challenges! As usual, we'll gather around the #OpenOrgChat hashtag at 2 p.m. Eastern (14:00 ET/19:00…
This is the third article in four-part series on open and transparent branding processes. Read part 1 and part 2. Here you are at yet another corporate after work meet-and…
For the last several years, I've been studying under an open organization and future of work guru. And for longer than I can remember, I've felt that business should operate…
The power of partners is incalculable. Again and again, open source communities prove that to all of us at Red Hat. The more smart people you assemble as you undertake an…
Becoming (or remaining) an open organization is challenging. This month, the open organization community at Opensource.com discussed those challenges—and so much more—during…
This article is the second in a two-part series on building communities of marketing partners. Read the first part. A community-powered approach to working with the broad…
Openness is not an end in itself. Ellen Marie Dash firmly established this point back in 2014, writing: While I like the ideals and goals of Open Companies, I find that the…
"Open is a means to an end—and that end is trust." So writes Steve Song, a social entrepreneur, Shuttleworth alum, and blogger who writes extensively about openness and access…
Allen Gunn is a facilitator, open source technologist and Executive Director of Aspiration, where he helps NGOs, activists, and software developers make smarter use of tech…
Being an engaged leader, says Jim Whitehurst in The Open Organization, means answering questions. It means fielding inquiries about strategies and plans. It means putting…
The Internet's foundational documents are called "requests for comments" or "RFCs." Published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organization whose stated goal…