“Human beings have certain universal psychological needs: The need to be treated as intrinsically equal, the need for personal growth, and to exercise self-direction. Each of these needs is frequently and systematically denied by traditional command-and-control managerial hierarchies.” This article shares an alternative way of managing a company, by examining the practices and impacts of “liberated” companies. “A liberated company allows employees complete freedom and responsibility to take actions that theynot their managersdecide are best for their companys vision.”
Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most
Executive Summary Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and-not least-of people. Except it turns out that far from being vital, top-down control carries serious costs, many of which have been hiding in plain sight.
