· Yvon Chouinard
Preface of the revised edition: the book as a philosophical manual for employees; Harvard case on the company.
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· Yvon Chouinard
Preface of the revised edition: the book as a philosophical manual for employees; Harvard case on the company.
· The Correspondent
Visit to Patagonia's European HQ; Klein's 'experiment' framing.
· Amazing Workplaces
Overview of flexible schedules, outcome-based performance and 'freakishly low' attrition.
· Thrive Street
Structured summary with the company's open-book and transparency commitments.
· David Senra
Podcast breakdown of Chouinard's 'MBA — management by absence' and business-as-nature ideas.
· 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.
Trend piece on moving from rules to freedom and trust.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Travelogue-style tour of Californian pioneers including Patagonia and Morning Star.
· Corporate Rebels
Index of 100+ organisations visited (Patagonia, Happy, a Japanese self-managing firm, Polish IT companies, freelancer networks...).
· Corporate Rebels
Cornerstone's three-year flattening: nine management layers gone, 52 policies cut to seven.
· The Good Attitude
Italian explainer of Laloux's colour stages.
· Aaron Dignan
Dignan's research tool built from studying Automattic, Buurtzorg, dm-drogerie markt, FAVI, Haier, Handelsbanken, Menlo, Morning Star, Patagonia, Spotify and W.L. Gore, among others.