Joy at work
by Dennis Bakke, Dennis W. Bakke · first published 2005
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2016–2017first – last mentioned
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Presents a theory of personnel management which contends that giving priority to employee satisfaction and autonomy over profits is the best way to business success, with real-life examples from AES, the energy company cofounded by the author.
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- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek - Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull - Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux - Joy at Work, Dennis W Bakke - Valve Employee Handbook, Valve Software This list is heavily skewed toward self-organization because I work for a company (Zappos) that is currently transitioning to a self-organization…
on “Ask HN: What books do you wish your manager would read?” ↗To me, the most interesting example of a similar organisation (that I see rarely mentioned) is AES (an energy supplier) under Dennis Bakke, as described in Joy at Work [1]. As he puts it, every decision made at the top was a lost chance to delegate responsibility. He advocates the advice process: any person can make any decision, provided that they first get advice…
on “No CEO: A Swedish company where nobody is in charge” ↗…finished Keynes, Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (Nicholas Wapshott), started in 2015. I read: * Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (David Marquet) * Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job (Dennis Bakke) * Ne vous résignez pas ! (Bruno Le Maire - French politician) * Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Michael…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗