In the Open Organization book club this week, we're discussing Chapter 7: Catalyzing Direction. Chat with us October 15 at 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT (18:00 UTC) using the hashtag…
The last chapter of T he Open Organization talks about how a leader in an open community has to be a catalyst, "an agent that provokes or speeds significant change in action."…
Frank, a longstanding member of my team, was unhappy and disengaged. He was visibly upset, avoided speaking up in meetings, and had declining productivity. It was obvious to…
As I read Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization, as well as articles about initiatives involving educators and students in open source projects and communities, I imagined…
When we're designing our organizations, why don't we show the same level of care we have for the products we want those organizations to generate? That's the question Cap…
Reading Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization, you can hear the voice of a leader on a mission. Achieving a well-described personal transformation to become the Red Hat CEO…
When I was pitching The Open Organization, publishers always asked me the same question: "Is this a book about management or leadership?" And my answer was always the same: "…
In 2015, Opensource.com featured nearly 100 stories about the ways open source values are changing organizations. Today, we're looking back on the five most popular articles…
This month marks a milestone for me. It's been five years since I started working in—and learning from—an open organization. But it also marks another important milestone. My…
At a recent meeting, I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Curt Carver, CIO at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, speak on the priorities (and challenges) for today's CIOs…
The end of Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization is really a beginning. It's the beginning of a crucial conversation, Whitehurst says on the book's final page, about "how you…
Jim Whitehurst recently wrote about the performance management approach we use at Red Hat for the Harvard Business Review. In his article, Whitehurst details one aspect of the…