· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case study of the Californian tomato processor that runs with no managers: mission statements, peer contracts (CLOUs) and how purpose reaches every colleague.
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· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case study of the Californian tomato processor that runs with no managers: mission statements, peer contracts (CLOUs) and how purpose reaches every colleague.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Site visit to Patagonia: how Chouinard's 'let my people go surfing' philosophy translates into flexible schedules, transparency and purpose-first decisions.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How a Dutch municipality dismantled its management layers and organised 400 civil servants into self-managing teams.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Dutch chocolate maker that ties a mission (slave-free chocolate) to how people are organised and motivated.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Flagship case of the Dutch home-care organisation: small autonomous nurse teams, a tiny back office and coaches instead of managers.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Interview-based case on the Dutch caterer Hutten and how its founder replaced control with trust and purpose.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Swedish-Ukrainian IT company that grew to 1,000+ people using self-managing teams and shared values.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Provocative take on quiet quitting and the Great Resignation as symptoms of outdated management rather than lazy workers.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Column arguing that narrow CEO-to-worker pay ratios improve trust, engagement and long-term results.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How BuurtzorgT scaled mental-health care with investors while protecting its self-managing model.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Essay on organisations built as communities of employees, customers and suppliers rather than shareholder machines.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Practical piece on replacing rulebooks with a handful of clear, operational values.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Second part of the Spotify case: keeping autonomy and experimentation alive while scaling.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Argues that progressive firms redefine what business is for, beyond shareholder value.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Opens the debate on 'New Pay' models — transparent, self-set and peer-reviewed salaries.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Overview of ten alternative structures (mini-factories, micro-enterprises, cells, squads) with the companies that invented them.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Introduction to Haier's 4,000 self-managing micro-enterprises and the internal market that connects them.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How parts of Bosch moved from hierarchy to networks of autonomous teams.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Visit to the Swedish bank where 'the branch is the bank' and budgets were abolished in the 1970s.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Second part of the FAVI story: customer-focused mini-factories and Zobrist's trust-based leadership.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
First part of the Spotify visit: how small autonomous squads were designed to keep speed at scale.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Interview with Koldo Saratxaga on how he turned Irizar into a self-managed cooperative success and created the NER model.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Basque consultancy that has transformed 80+ companies into self-managed organisations (no bosses, shared profits).
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How the Stockholm consultancy organises 200+ consultants without a traditional hierarchy.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on Viisi, repeatedly voted best Dutch employer, where roles rotate and salaries follow a transparent formula.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Short animation explaining how the Basque fastener maker runs with self-managed teams.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on Yash Pakka (Faizabad) which has experimented with self-management since 1999.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How TMC turns engineers into 'employeneurs' with their own P&L, profit share and freedom.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Moscow grocery chain run by promise-based 'beneficiary' teams instead of managers.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Thought piece on splitting a corporation into hundreds of internal start-ups.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How Haier uses internal platforms and contract logic to coordinate micro-enterprises.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
How the Chinese hot-pot chain pushes authority to waiters and restaurant managers.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Walk-through of the internal handbook a Basque manufacturer uses to run without bosses.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Tokyo fintech with ~300 people that runs on self-management and radical transparency.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Ten building blocks of self-management drawn from the Basque electronics firm P4Q.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Practical models for large organisations that drop the middle-management layer.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Honest look at why transformations fail — useful counterweight to hype.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Step-by-step guidance for a team moving toward self-management.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Comparison of four alternatives to the pyramid, with real examples.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Argues the business and human case for self-organisation.