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Reinventing Organizations

Frederic Laloux presents his research on self-managing, purpose-driven organizations, followed by Q&A. He summarizes the findings of his book Reinventing Organizations and examples such as Buurtzorg.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the best introduction to self-management and new management paradigms.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Reinventing Organizations
Topic
self-managing organizations
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • At Buffer we've started to move in this direction. I can highly recommend watching this video if you're interested in self-management and the idea of a new management paradigm: [VIDEO] . Frederic's book by the same name also goes into further details and shares several …

    joelgascoigne on Hacker News · 2014-11
    In Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?
  • I agree with PG on this trend. In "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux you'll get more evidence that lack of meanness leads to success: [VIDEO] Particularly the example of Buurtzorg, a Dutch healthcare provider, is quite convincing: They went from 0% to 80% market-share by …

    s3nnyy on Hacker News · 2014-11
    In Mean People Fail
  • The author of this book wants readers to pay what they feel the book was worth to them. [LINK] So you if you end up downloading and reading the direct PDF link (the security through obscurity method is clearly failing here) I recommend paying what …

    bcx on Hacker News · 2015-06
    In Reinventing organizations (2014) [pdf]

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