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Our 20 Most Popular Blog Posts

1. How Real Leaders Melt The Iceberg of Ignorance With Humility
2. Why The Command-and-Control Mindset Is Killing Your Company
3. What It’s Like to Work “The Spotify Way”
4. The 8 Habits of Companies You Wish You Worked For (And How To Put Them Into Practice)
5. 10 Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (In 70+ Companies)
6. On What We Learned This Year: The 8 Habits Of Highly Progressive Workplaces
7. The World’s Most Pioneering Company Of Our Times
8. Rewriting The Future Of Work: 8 Movements To Watch
9. Buurtzorg’s Healthcare Revolution: 14,000 Employees, 0 Managers, Sky-High Engagement
10. Bursting The Bubble: Teal Ain’t Real
11. Cut The Crap: The Made-Up Nonsense About Generations At Work
12. Picking The Brain Of The World’s Most Radical CEO: Zhang Ruimin
13. The Corporate Rebels Canvas: A Practical Tool To Build A Workplace People Love
14. Destroy The Hierarchical Pyramid And Build A Powerful Network of Teams
15. The ‘9 New Ways of Working’ That Guide Our Client Work
16. The Power of Purpose: How Patagonia Walks the Talk
17. Mass Incompetency In Business: The Way We Promote People Is Dead Wrong
18. The Command and Control Model is Outdated, Even The Military Says So!
19. Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions
20. Morning Star’s Success Story: No Bosses, No Titles, No Structural Hierarchy

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The 8 Habits of Companies You Wish You Worked For (And How To Put Them Into Practice)

1. Stop Focusing On Profits Right Now! Instead, Build A Community On Purpose And Values
2. Destroy The Hierarchical Pyramid And Build A Powerful Network of Teams
3. How To Become A Better Leader? Stop Telling, Start Asking!
4. Want To Become Agile? Stop Planning And Start Experimenting
5. Get Rid of Your Outdated Industrial Age Thinking and Let Your People Go Surfing
6. Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions
7. Secrecy In Business Is Dead. Here’s To Radical Transparency
8. Delete: Titles And Job Descriptions. Add: Talents And Mastery.

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Rebellious Practices Series

Rebellious Practices: Boost Transparency Through Town Hall Meetings
Rebellious Practices: Celebrating Failure During Fuckup Nights
Rebellious Practices: Handle Conflicts with the Accountability Process
Rebellious Practices: How To Create and Align Your Company’s Purpose
Rebellious Practices: How To Replace Rules And Protocols By A Set Of Clear Values
Rebellious Practices: How To Successfully Set Your Own Salary
Rebellious Practices: Make Better Decisions with the Advice Process
Rebellious Practices: The Power of Open-Book Management
Rebellious Practices: The Subtle Simplicity of Stand-Ups

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Rebellious Reflection Series

Rebellious Reflection: From Nasty Failures to Sky High Ambition
Rebellious Reflection: How We Hit Our First Identity Crisis
Rebellious Reflection: The 3 Changes That Will Further Boost Corporate Rebels
Rebellious Reflection: The Biggest Mistakes We’ve Made So Far
Rebellious Reflection: The Next Steps
Rebellious Reflection: Why We Made Our Debut On A Theater Stage

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• [Guest Blog by Ari Weinzweig] A new way to work
• [Guest Blog] 3 Essential Office Requirements for Successful Self-Management
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• [Guest Blog] Happy Employees or Happy Citizens?
• [Guest Blog] How Changing The Way We Work Inside Changed The Way We Work Outside
• [Guest Blog] How to Create a Self-Managing Organisation: The Processes
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• [Guest Blog] Neuroscience Shows Us That The Way We Work Is Wrong
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• [Guest Blog] Peer-To-Peer: An Alternative To Traditional Organizational Forms
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• [Guest Blog] Theories and Philosophies: Are They of Any Use?
• [Guest Blog] Towards a Self-Managing Organization
• [Guest Blog] Trust versus Control
• [Guest Blog] We Have Re-Thought Our Employment Contract. Here’s The Result.
• [Guest Blog] Why I Gave Up The Power Of Being a CEO
• [Guest Blog] Why Self Management? We Are Already A Great Place To Work
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• [Guest Blog] You’re Only Really Traveling When You Don’t Know Where You’ll End Up
• #RebelDay: A Powerful Way To Get Things Done
• 1 Book, 1 Bucket List, 100+ Workplace Pioneers
• 10 Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (In 70+ Companies)
• 10 Lessons Learned From Implementing Self-Management (Inspired By Buurtzorg)
• 10 Trending Employee Perks – Prepare to Get Jealous
• 11 Things You Should Do To Skyrocket Your Employee Engagement
• 12 Tips For Sharing Constructive Feedback
• 2 Spots Left To Become A Progressive Workplace
• 3 Tactics To Build Great Teamwork
• 3 Ways To Ease The Pain Of Slow And Frustrating Decision Making
• 300 Employees And 0 Managers: Self-Management In The Public Sector
• 4 Easy Steps To Become A More Supportive Leader
• 4 Powerful Lessons To Successfully Run A Self-Managed Company
• 4 Simple Ways To Resolve Boring And Unproductive Meetings
• 5 Best Practices To Distribute Decision-Making
• 5 Simple Steps To Self-Management
• 5 Steps To A Progressive Organizational Structure
• 5 Steps To Build Freedom And Trust At Work
• 5 Ways To Better Leadership
• 5 Ways To Create A Radically Transparent Work Culture
• 6 Do’s and Don’ts When Creating a Self-Managing Organisation
• 6 Steps To Create A Feedback Culture In Your Organization
• A CEO’s Perspective On How To Start An Organizational Transformation
• A Chance For Corporate Rebels To Come Together And Unite
• A Crash Course On 60 Of The World’s Most Progressive Workplaces
• A Financial Glossary For Corporate Rebels
• A Happier Workplace? Let People Choose Their Manager
• A Plea For Corporate Disobedience
• A Production Plant With Zero Hierarchy And Employees Who Set Their Own Hours
• A Radical And Proven Approach To Self-Management
• Adopting Self-Management: Big Bang Or Baby Steps?
• Advice From The CIA: How To Sabotage Your Workplace
• An Inside View of Zappos (and the Mysterious Holacracy Experiment)
• An Update From The Writer’s Cave
• And We’re Off! Six Weeks Of Building Better Workplaces In Australia And New Zealand
• Announcing Revolt: A New Weapon In The Fight For Better Workplaces
• Are You A Rebel? Then Don’t Click Here!
• Assessing the Bold Claims of Holacracy
• Bad Decisions Make Good Stories
• Beware: This Hippo Kills Your Company!
• Beyond Budgeting – The Adaptive And Agile Management Model
• Big News Coming Soon…
• Boosting Teamwork With Gratitude
• Break Free And Create An Experiment-Friendly Workplace
• Breaking News: The Corporate Rebels Book Is On Its Way!
• Breathing The Joy Of Life Into Work
• Breman – A Rebel About To Turn 50
• Bucket List: Meeting Carin Wormsbecher – part 1
• Bucket List: Meeting Carin Wormsbecher – part 2
• Building A Movement: The Next Steps
• Bureaucracy Continues To Rise. Here’s How To Bust It.
• Bursting The Bubble: Teal Ain’t Real
• Busted: 4 of Our Favorite Employee Happiness Myths
• Busting The Myth: Organizations With No Hierarchy Don’t Exist
• Buurtzorg’s Healthcare Revolution: 14,000 Employees, 0 Managers, Sky-High Engagement
• Case Study: Becoming The Coolest Employer In The Netherlands
• Check Out Our 10 Most Popular Articles Of 2018
• Chuck Blakeman’s 4 Steps To Successful Self-Management
• Companies Need To Stop Chasing Profit Like It’s Crack Cocaine
• Corporate Rebels Around The World, Next Stop: Brazil
• Corporate Rebels Around The World: Join The Revolution!
• Corporate Rebels Listed Among Top 30 Emergent Management Thinkers
• Corporate Rebels Movement Nominated For The “Oscars Of Management Thinking”
• Corporate Rebels Will Give Away 10% Of Profits Each Year
• Create a Highly Motivated Team? Here’s What You Can Learn From the Olympics
• Cruising California: From Appster and Google to Patagonia and Zappos
• Cut The Crap: The Made-Up Nonsense About Generations At Work
• Delegating Responsibility: Why And How?
• Delete: Titles And Job Descriptions. Add: Talents And Mastery.
• Design Your Ideal Workplace With Support From 800 Corporate Rebels
• Destroy The Hierarchical Pyramid And Build A Powerful Network of Teams
• Ditch Annual Performance Reviews. Here’s How Netflix Did It.
• Divine Decision-Making In Your Org: Here’s How It’s Done
• Don’t Try This At Work: 4 Practices For The Not-So-Faint-Hearted
• Email Detox: Practical Tips To Cure The Addiction
• Emotions At Work: Insights From Buurtzorg, Handelsbanken, and Decathlon
• Employee Engagement: The Business Case
• Experiencing Wholeness with Frederic Laloux: Every Theory Reflects Its Creator
• Extra Events Announced: Learn How To Make Engagement Skyrocket!
• FAVI (part 2): How Giving Freedom to Factory Workers Created Massive Success
• FAVI: How Zobrist Broke Down FAVI’s Command-and-Control Structures
• Finext: The Successes and Challenges of a Self-Managing Company
• Fixing Work That Sucks: Semco’s Step-By-Step Transformation
• Frank van Massenhove: The Man with the Funny Stories and the Silly Shoes
• Free Your Money: Let Your Teams Make Their Own Decisions
• From Employees To Rebels: Here’s How It’s Done.
• From Patriarchy To Partnership – The Paradigm Shift Our Organisations Need
• From Principles To Practices: A Case Study Of Bringing Self-Management To Life
• Gary Hamel’s Powerful Speech: Highlight Of The Drucker Forum?
• Generations At Work: Persistent Myths Vs. Actual Science
• Get Rid of Your Outdated Industrial Age Thinking and Let Your People Go Surfing
• Growing The Movement: When Fun And Success Come Together
• Here Are 4 Ways to Effectively Build More Trust and Freedom in Your Team
• Here’s How The 100 Most Innovative Companies Adapt And Respond To Change
• Here’s What You Can Learn From Lapsed Anarchist Ari Weinzweig
• Here’s What I Learned From Jos de Blok Of Buurtzorg
• How 2,300 Employees Moved To Self-Management – Overnight!
• How a Strong Focus on Happiness Skyrocketed This Company’s Success
• How I Became A Corporate Jester
• How Lars Kolind Created Immense Success by Abolishing Hierarchy (20 Times!)
• How Many People Do We Need To Start A Workplace Revolution?
• How Nearsoft Created Its Success? By Letting Go of Most of the Rules!
• How NOT to Increase the Happiness in Your Organization
• How Real Leaders Melt The Iceberg of Ignorance With Humility
• How Self-Management Boosted The Performance Of A British Aerospace Manufacturer
• How These 3 Companies Manage Cost Without A Traditional Budget
• How This Italian Workplace Pioneer Is Rebelling Against The Status Quo
• How This Organization Is Transforming The Social Care Sector In Scotland
• How To Become A Better Leader? Stop Telling, Start Asking!
• How To Disrupt A 70,000 Employee Manufacturing Company
• How To Foster A High-Performance Culture (Just Like Buurtzorg And Handelsbanken)
• How To Make Money With A Blog (And No Business Plan)
• How to Radically Create a Happy Company From Scratch
• How To Recruit Like The World’s Most Progressive Organizations
• How To Reward In Self-Managed Teams
• How To Unleash Decision-Making Across Your Entire Organization
• How To Work Without Managers? Here’s How!
• How We Built A Feedback Culture: Using Tacos, Burgers, And Sushi!
• How We Made A 9 Day Fortnight A Reality
• How We Use Blockchain To Share Company Ownership
• If Employees Quit Because Of Managers, Why Not Fire All The Managers?
• Igniting Workplace Revolution: A Practical Case Study
• Inside Next Jump: 4 Levels of an Inspiring Workplace
• Inside The Revolution: A Retail Giant’s Workplace Reform
• Inspired by Research: 5 Tips on How to Create Positive Organizations
• Interviewing Dan Pink: The Updated Truth About What Motivates Us
• It’s 2019! Start A Revolution, Not A Business
• It’s Time For Something New.. And We Need Your Help
• Join The Movement And Visit Our Rebel Event In Berlin!
• Leaders: Give Up Your Status Symbols And Destroy The Ivory Tower
• Learn From Pioneering Companies and Start Using These Cloud-Based Tools
• Learn How To Make Work More Fun From 6 New Workplace Pioneers
• Let’s Be Transparent About Our Online Activity
• Let’s Rebel: How To Build A Workplace People Love
• London: Here We Come!
• London’s Big Event For Corporate Misfits, Troublemakers, And Rebels
• Longing for the Meatball
• Management Fireworks At The Drucker Forum?
• Management Isn’t Rocket Science
• Mass Incompetency In Business: The Way We Promote People Is Dead Wrong
• Meet Centigo: A Prime Example Of A Bossless Organization
• Meet This Kiwi Bunch Of Organizational Hackers
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• Meeting Professor Bartels: The Science of Happiness
• Meeting Simon Sinek: The Most Challenging Meeting So Far
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• Meeting Traci Fenton: The Woman Behind WorldBlu
• Morning Star’s Success Story: No Bosses, No Titles, No Structural Hierarchy
• Name Next Year’s No.1 Bestseller
• New Rebel Events Announced: London, Stockholm, and Amsterdam
• New Rebel Events In Australia
• New Ways Of Working: The 5 Strange Choices We Made
• Newsflash: There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Model to Happiness At Work
• No Motivation at Work? Unfortunately, You’re Not Alone.
• Now On Sale: Rebel Events In London, Berlin, And Zurich
• Now This Happened: A Self-Managing Firing Round
• On What We Learned This Year: The 8 Habits Of Highly Progressive Workplaces
• Our First Bucket List Visits: 4 Things We Learned
• Personal Development Done Right: The Spotify Way
• Picking The Brain Of The World’s Most Radical CEO: Zhang Ruimin
• Platform Organizations: The Next Big Thing?
• Practical Happiness Tips From Our Bucket List Visit to Spain
• Promoting Psychological Safety In A Chinese Manufacturing Plant
• Purpose at Work: Why Work Should Be Meaningful
• Purpose In Business: Meaningful Action Or Empty Words?
• Purpose In Practice: How A Swedish IT Company Is Transforming Ukraine
• Putting Talents To Work. Job Crafting In Real Life.
• Radical Autonomy At Scale
• Radical Transparency: A Vital Ingredient In Self-Management
• Rebel Event: Join Us And Discover What We Learned From Over 50 Workplace Pioneers
• Rebel Tour: Get Your Ticket And Join Us At A Rebel Event Near You
• Rebellious Practices: Boost Transparency Through Town Hall Meetings
• Rebellious Practices: Celebrating Failure During Fuckup Nights
• Rebellious Practices: Handle Conflicts with the Accountability Process
• Rebellious Practices: How To Create and Align Your Company’s Purpose
• Rebellious Practices: How To Replace Rules and Protocols By A Set of Clear Values
• Rebellious Practices: How To Successfully Set Your Own Salary
• Rebellious Practices: Make Better Decisions with the Advice Process
• Rebellious Practices: The Power of Open-Book Management
• Rebellious Practices: The Subtle Simplicity of Stand-Ups
• Rebellious Reflection: From Nasty Failures to Sky High Ambition
• Rebellious Reflection: How We Hit Our First Identity Crisis
• Rebellious Reflection: The 3 Changes That Will Further Boost Corporate Rebels
• Rebellious Reflection: The Biggest Mistakes We’ve Made So Far
• Rebellious Reflection: The Next Steps
• Rebellious Reflection: Why We Made Our Debut On A Theater Stage
• Reinventing HR – Making Work Good Again
• Relatedness: Enough To Build An International Business On
• Remmelt Schuuring: The Unique Approach of a Happy Worker Cooperative
• RenDanHeYi: The Organizational Model Defining The Future Of Work?
• Revolt: Revolutionizing How Organizations Work
• Rewriting The Future Of Work: 8 Movements To Watch
• Richard Sheridan’s 4 Practical Lessons to Create a Highly Engaged Workplace
• Right Tasks + Right Rewards = Great Performance
• Ruthless Experimentation: 5 Best Practices
• Scaling Change: A Unique Bottom-Up Approach At This Large Retailer
• Screw Happiness At Work (And How NOT To Implement It)
• Screw Long Hours And Endless Meetings
• Secrecy In Business Is Dead. Here’s To Radical Transparency
• Self-Management At Vagas: Zero Functional Hierarchy, No Targets, And Powerful Consensus
• Self-Set Salaries: A Practical Guide
• Self-Steering Organization: 6 Mistakes We Made
• Setting Your Colleague’s Salary. Each Month. Using An App.
• Sharing Unique Insights During Our Toronto Workshop
• Spotify: Cherishing a Start-Up Culture During Exponential Growth
• Stop Focusing On Profits Right Now! Instead, Build A Community On Purpose And Values
• Stop Prescribing The Tools That Employees Should Use
• Stop Suppressing The Workforce
• Stop Wasting Your Time On Annual Budgeting
• Successful Self-Management? Forget the Rules and Welcome Failure!
• Talking Bullsh*t With Management Guru Tom Peters
• Team Work: The Bare Essentials
• The ‘9 New Ways of Working’ That Guide Our Client Work
• The (In)Human Side of Exponential Organizations
• The 1 Thing That Immediately Kills Your Company
• The 3 Main Obstacles For An Engaged Workforce (And How to Overcome Them)
• The 3 Things Business Leaders Worry About (And How To Solve It)
• The 4 Secrets Of Superengaged Employees
• The 5 Barriers To Organizational Change (According To Harvard Professor Moss Kanter)
• The 6 Creativity Hacks That Skyrocket Innovation
• The 7 Different Team Roles Of Buurtzorg’s Successful Self-Managed Teams
• The 8 Habits of Companies You Wish You Worked For (And How To Put Them Into Practice)
• The Art Of Business
• The Budget Problems – More Than Irritating Itches
• The Cat And Dog Relationship Between HR And Finance
• The Command and Control Model is Outdated, Even The Military Says So!
• The Cookie Factory: How a Burnout Led to Liberation
• The Corporate Rebels Canvas: A Practical Tool To Build A Workplace People Love
• The Corporate Rebels Movement Is Going Down Under!
• The Corporate Rebels Survey: The Perfect Starting Point To Make Work More Fun
• The Corporate Rebels Tour: New Dates Added In Melbourne And Sydney
• The Difference Between Mediocre and Radical Intrapreneurship
• The First Signs Of A Global Human Management Revolution
• The Fundamental Things People Get Wrong About Self-Management
• The Future Of Work: 2018’s Top Articles
• The Individual Bonus – A Simple But Stupid Motivational Medicine
• The Liberation Of Factory Workers: From Near Bankruptcy To Double-Digit Growth
• The Million-Dollar Question Every Organization Needs To Answer
• The Most Pioneering Workplace In The Middle East
• The Perks of Google: Heaven on Earth or Just Lipstick on a Pig?
• The Power of Purpose: How Patagonia Walks the Talk
• The Proof: Happy Employees Drive Success
• The Rebel Event Aftermovie (And New Tour Dates In Australia And The Netherlands)
• The Role Of Leadership In Becoming A Great Place To Work
• The Science Of Successful Self-Management: 16 Crucial Factors
• The Science Of Target Setting (And How Most Companies Get It Wrong)
• The Self-Management Hype: Aren’t We Just Reinventing The Wheel?
• The Start of a Journey
• The Ugly Truth About The State Of The Workplace
• The Way We Work Is Broken. Here’s The Evidence.
• The Workplace Revolution: Engagement, Performance Reviews and Salaries
• The Workplace Revolution: Fat Cats, Pay Equality, And Purpose Washing
• The Workplace Revolution: Flipped Workplace, Stress-Out Workers And Power Dynamics
• The Workplace Revolution: Less Work, Assholes And Maslow’s Pyramid
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• The Workplace Revolution: Work-Life Balance & Social Norms
• The World’s Most Pioneering Company Of Our Times
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• This Company Bets All On Employee Engagement
• This Company Democratically Elects Its CEO Every Single Year
• This Law Firm Became Self-Managed In Just 6 Months
• This Polish Company Shows How To Destroy Command-And-Control
• This Transformation Story Teaches You How To Become A True Corporate Rebel
• This Vital Practice Is Missing In Almost Every Organization
• Three Crucial Ingredients To Successfully Transform Into A Future-Proof Workplace
• Today’s Organizations Waste Talent. Here’s How To Change That.
• Tony’s Chocolonely: Turning Customers Into Activists
• Toxic Colleagues – A Bigger Problem Than You Think
• Toxic Meetings = Corporate Torture (Here’s How To Fix Them)
• Transform Your Organization Into A Network Of Teams – In 5 Steps
• Transparent Salaries: How Solving Tough Issues Together Builds Trust
• Turn Employees Into Entrepreneurs And Board Members Into Investors
• Turning Fuzzy Core Values Into A Practical Tool For Busting Bureaucracy
• Understanding The Creative Process Within Organizations
• Upcoming: Our Bucket List Trip to the USA
• Update: Corporate Rebels Shift Into the Next Gear
• Want To Become Agile? Stop Planning And Start Experimenting
• Want To Set Your Own Working Hours? Here’s How To Convince Your Boss
• Wanted: Two Corporate Rebels To Join Our Team
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• Watch: A Summary of Our Latest Presentation at the Rabobank
• What 21st Century Organizations Can Learn From 18th Century Pirates
• What It’s Like to Work “The Spotify Way”
• Why And How We Defined Our Values At Corporate Rebels
• Why Employees Should Vote For Organizational Change
• Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions
• Why Semco Doesn’t Want Your Company To Be Like Semco
• Why The Command-and-Control Mindset Is Killing Your Company
• Why The Perfect Workplace Is a Fata Morgana
• Why We Got Rid Of The Annual Review, For Good
• Why We Killed Four Rebels
• Why We Need More Herbs In The World
• Why We Need More Rebels Than We Think
• Why We Should Change The Rhythm Of Business
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