"Management as we know it is a century-old, outdated technology; we need
to radically reinvent how we organize and collaborate to rise to the
challenges of our time, and this book offers some powerful tools for
that journey." --Brian J. Robertson, author of Holacracy, The New
Management System for a Rapidly Changing World "A Radical Enterprise is
a masterclass on the future of business. Parker inspires us with
practical solutions for building open, decentralized organizations and
shows us how to create the conditions for teams of any size to find
meaning and fulfillment in their work." --Aaron Pava, Chief Experience
Officer (CXO), CivicActions The fastest growing and most competitive
organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no
bullshit. The tomato sauce in your pantry. The raincoat in your closet.
The smart TV hanging in your living room. What do all of these products
have in common? Chances are they were created by organizations where
colleagues self-allocate into teams based on intrinsic motivation. Where
individuals self-manage their commitments to each other without the
coercion of managers. And where teams launch new products and ventures
on the market without the control of leaders. These organizations
represent a new, radically collaborative breed of corporation. Recently
doubling in number and already comprising 8% of corporations around the
world, scientists and researchers have discovered that radically
collaborative organizations are more competitive on practically every
meaningful financial measure. They enjoy higher market share, higher
innovation, and higher customer satisfaction than their traditional
corporate competitors--and they also enjoy higher engagement, loyalty,
and motivation from their employees. In this groundbreaking book,
technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker
breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically
collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights
from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates
four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must
embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution,
deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability. Millions of workers
around the world are collapsing under the weight of command-and-control
culture. The crisis has reached its breaking point. Now is the time to
embrace radical change. Discover the revolutionary shift to partnership
and equality and the economic superiority that follows with A Radical
Enterprise."What I found most refreshing about this book is that it
speaks to what is key and important to becoming a Radically
Collaborative workplace and producing tangible results. And it's about
how our world is going to metamorphosize from a system of domination to
one of collaboration. Kudos to Matt Parker!" -Matt Perez, cofounder of
Nearsoft and coauthor of RADICAL COMPANIES
