Reddit reviews The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

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Be careful with both your questions and your answers, please. If unsure, err on the side of caution. Once / if the deal goes through, your Red Hat colleagues-to-be will share all of this with you without hesitation, I'm sure. Re our culture - read The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst, someone else already said it. ;)

Here’s a completely different approach, also vastly different model:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Open-Organization-Igniting-Passion-Performance-ebook/dp/B00O92Q6CQ

At a macro level, there’s many organizations mimicking parts of these approaches.

But at a deeper level, you have to understand that corporations look like military command chains precisely nowhere.

They’re not 10,000 people in a team.

They’re hundreds or thousands of teams, and many, many of these teams have a lot of autonomy and choose to think, act and conduct themselves as startups, which, since they carry their own revenue, they essentially are.

And what you end up with in many places is different teams have different corporate cultures and the glue that holds them together is a separate cultural tier to that of their internal conduct.

Finally the last piece of it is that if you took 10 or 100 corporations to which the above applies... and further stir the pot a bit differently because of the culture they inherited from their past self, from whatever values the people at the helm try to breathe into them, or from accrued attitudes ranging from belief in a cause to cynical resentment, you’d end up with 10 or 100 vastly different outcomes.

They’re all different, and many, MANY of them are people trying to do positive stuff.