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The hidden value of trust at work

"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…

Unlocking employee potential in the open organization

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…

What organizations can learn from open culture and technologies

They say life imitates art. But, I believe life imitates technology. Look at distributed systems, decentralized computing, open source, and lean principles. With these and…

The magic at work in an open organization

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…

Should open source leaders go native?

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 don't need to serve Kool-Aid

Red Hatters tend to be enthusiastic about the company and our projects, so I occasionally run into somewhat-snarky comments about us "drinking the Kool-Aid," as if we're…

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