Joost Minnaar

Joost Minnaar

Joost is the co-founder of Corporate Rebels on a mission to make work more fun.

About Joost

Together with Pim de Morree, he founded Corporate Rebels after leaving his corporate job in Barcelona in 2016.

Joost’s passion lies in making work more fun. He dedicates his time to research, writing, and creating courses for the Corporate Rebels community. Through these efforts, Joost helps inspire and educate organizations worldwide on how to create better workplaces.

Joost also co-founded:

  • Krisos – a private equity company that acquires businesses and transforms them into self-managing organizations.

  • The Corporate Rebels Foundation – a registered charity on a mission to end inhumane workplaces.

  • ThermoSwap – a climate tech company providing revolutionary and highly efficient solid-state heat exchangers.

Education

  • Industrial Engineering & Management Science (BSc, Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Innovation Management (MSc, Eindhoven University of Technology)

Achievements

In 2018, Pim and Joost were listed on the Thinkers50 Top 30 Emergent Management Thinkers. They won the Thinkers50 2019 Radar Award and were named as one of the “new voices reenergizing management”.

Books

Articles written by Joost Minnaar

Dec 01, 2024
Fair Pay Through Self-Management: Mindera's Salary Comparison Model
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
We recently launched the Salary Model Insight course on our platform for members. In this course, we explore 10 real-life case studies of…
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Nov 10, 2024
Voys Steps into Steward-Ownership: A Bold Move for Equality and Purpose
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
Voys, one of the Netherlands' most remarkable startup success stories and a member of the Dutch Rebel Cell, has taken a bold, unprecedented…
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Sep 08, 2024
The Future of Work: 50+ Case Studies of Self-Managing Organizations
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
As I mentioned in a recent newsletter, we were issued a challenge by Haier's Model Institute (HMI), Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini's MLab,…
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Aug 25, 2024
Profit Through People: The Enterprise Model of Decentralization and Extreme Customer Care
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
In one of my previous newsletters, I wrote about the American rental company Enterprise and their relentless customer focus through a…
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Aug 18, 2024
Handelsbanken: A Budgetless Banking Pioneer
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
In the landscape of corporate innovation, Handelsbanken stands out as a prime example of a company that has successfully embraced a…
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Jul 14, 2024
Success in Work and Life = Attitude x Effort x Ability
Joost Minnaar Written by Joost Minnaar
Recently, I wrote a newsletter about Kazuo Inamori's belief that experience should always be valued over knowledge. This sparked a lively…
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