Welcome to a new section on Opensource.com called The Open Organization. This will be a place where we can re-imagine the ways we collaborate, engage, and make decisions using…
Help us celebrate the release of Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance by entering our Twitter contest! This contest has ended…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to another gripping installment of my Six Degrees column. As usual, thanks for the support. So far you folks have helped Slashdot…
Change management is one of the most popular topics in business literature, and something I first encountered during my evening MBA studies while I was working at Red Hat. The…
Midway through a day packed with events celebrating the launch of his new book, The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst was unflagging. More than 450 business leaders, industry…
Red Hat's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, begins the sixth chapter his book, The Open Organization, with a sentence that perfectly summarizes a crash course in making inclusive workplace…
I'm probably one of the last people you want to comment on how to effectively lead and develop an organization. During my career, I twice held team lead positions. Both times…
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO and author of The Open Organization, about his book. Because I also believe that a healthy culture is…
The Opensource.com team asked if I'd share some of my thoughts about The Open Organization, seeing as I'm quoted in the book. I suppose it's rather fitting that I'm mentioned…
When I started my new career at Red Hat (as content manager of The Enterprisers Project), Jim Whitehurst's book, The Open Organization, was still two months from its debut. I…
Anthropologists who traveled to the jungle to study various tribes would debate (half jokingly) whether to "go native"—that is, whether to adopt the lifestyle of the people…
Open organizations function best as meritocracies—places where, as people in open source communities tend to say, "code talks." By that, they usually mean that what you do is…