Good 8 minute talk on the '''open enterprise'''.

You see this emerging to a more or lesser extent at an increasing number of organizations (which may be a threat to some of the staff).

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Key points:
*we live in democracies, but we work in (hierarchical) dictatorships
*[our past stands in the way of our future - side note]
*open source community have figured out a way to work freely, without managers
*they figured out to have several thousand people working on billions of lines of code creating billions of dollars of amazing software that run 60% of the internet without a single person telling someone else what to do
*they have figured out to be fully alive in something that they are passioned about and scale and actually produce value
*so, why don't we take the same principles of the open source software world and apply it to the conventional work place
*it's called the '''open enterprise'''
*'''first''' principle: there is '''no fixed structure''', there are no prescribed leaders, no job titles, everybody has the same job title
*there is a '''holarchy''', where people move up and down in a hierarchy depending on the situation
*WL Gore (Goretex) 9000 employees, only one job title: associate (and you own part of the company)
*there are leaders, and if there are, they have voted them into that position [and they have accepted the accountability and responsibility]
*you can take that vote away immediately which makes you accountable to actually put some real leaders in place
*the '''second''' principle of an open enterprise is '''transparency''', everything: salaries, financial information. every meeting has an open door. if you show up in a meeting than you belong in that meeting
*zappos, groupon are making '''employee culture the most important thing''' and they are kicking but doing it
*'''third''' principle is that an open enterprise has is that they have a true '''meritocracy''' [governed by those who deserve to] of ideas. what *that means is that every idea is judged on the idea itself, not who the idea came from. 
*the ideas get voted on and the good ones bubble up and get implemented.