The whole movement, read and linked.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel

The canonical HBR piece on Morning Star: no bosses, titles or promotions; peer-negotiated CLOUs; elected compensation committees.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel

Purchasable reprint of the Morning Star article for site licensing.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

HBR Nov–Dec 2018 article on Haier's 4,000 micro-enterprises, user-facing 'MEs' and 'nodes' — full-text PDF mirror.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Data-driven HBR piece on the growth of bureaucracy (cited by Columbia Business School).

Harvard Business Review · Ricardo Semler

Semler's third HBR article; the page also references 'Managing Without Managers' (1989) and 'Why My Former Employees Still Work for Me' (1994).

Harvard Business Review · HBR

Counter-argument piece — useful to present both sides on removing management layers.

Harvard Business Review (via ResearchGate) · Bernstein, Bunch, Canner & Lee

HBR's balanced assessment of self-managed teams (title notwithstanding, it evaluates the broader movement).

Harvard Business Review Arabia (Majarra) · HBR Arabia

Arabic-language HBR piece on adapting agile methods to executive roles.

Harvard Business Review Arabia (Majarra) · HBR Arabia

About page — the Arabic licensed edition (since 2015) with articles, audio, video and podcasts.

Harvard Business Review · Ricardo Semler

The 1989 original: 800 employees set their own hours, see the books and vote on decisions; 150+ managers set their own pay. Three principles — democracy, profit sharing, information.

Harvard Business Review · Ricardo Semler

Purchasable reprint with abstract.

Harvard Business Review (via donnapace.com) · Ricardo Semler

Open PDF of reprint 89509 incl. the self-set salary and self-titled 'coordinator' passages.

Harvard Business Review · Ricardo Semler

1994 HBR piece on turning employees into satellite suppliers instead of laying them off.

Harvard Business Review · HBR

HBR index page: Semler's 'go to the movies on Sunday' remark, the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge winners, and a Semco teaching case.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel

25 challenges set by the 'renegade brigade' (Prahalad, Senge, Pfeffer, Gore's Terri Kelly, John Mackey): expand autonomy, depoliticise decisions, unleash imagination.

Harvard Business Review (via getyourbigon.com) · Gary Hamel

Open PDF with the full list of moon shots.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel

Short manifesto on why organisational architecture and ideology must change.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Self-assessment tool; estimates excess bureaucracy costs the US $3T and the OECD ~$9T a year.

Harvard Business Review · Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini

Findings from 7,000+ BMI responses on bureaucratic drag.

Harvard Business Review · Bernstein, Bunch, Canner & Lee

HBR's balanced assessment: teams as the structure, contextual leadership distributed among roles.

Harvard Business Review · Rigby, Sutherland & Takeuchi

Landmark HBR piece taking agile beyond IT: six practices incl. 'destroy corporate barriers'.

Harvard Business Review · Rigby, Sutherland & Noble

Shows agile can scale to a $10B business with 1,000+ teams (URL as cited on Jeff Sutherland's Wikipedia page).

Harvard Business Review · Rigby, Sutherland & Takeuchi

Traces agile's roots to Takeuchi & Nonaka's 1986 'New New Product Development Game'.

Harvard Business Review · Patty McCord

The famous piece behind the Netflix culture deck: trust people not policies, hire adults, drop PIPs and annual reviews.

Harvard Business Review (via classdat.appstate.edu) · Patty McCord

Open PDF of the article.

Harvard Business Review (full text via WKU) · Ralph Stayer

One of HBR's most reprinted articles: a CEO who handed decisions, hiring, firing and merit pay to worker teams — full text mirror.

Harvard Business Review · Amy Gallo (with Amy Edmondson)

Explainer answering six questions on team psychological safety.

Harvard Business Review Press · Buckingham & Goodall; Cappelli & Tavis

Collection incl. Deloitte's redesign (Buckingham & Goodall 2015) and Cappelli & Tavis on the end of annual reviews.