The whole movement, read and linked.

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.

INSEAD · INSEAD News

Zhang Ruimin explains three ways businesses can disrupt with Rendanheyi to 400 MBAs at Fontainebleau.

Caixin Global · Denise Jia

Profile of the founder and the rendanheyi model as he steps down; annual forum with Hamel's Management Lab.

China Daily (Qingdao) · China Daily

Notes the first Rendanheyi International Management Innovation Certification signed with EFMD.

Peter Fisk · Peter Fisk

Long-form profile from the Qingdao forum: 28% annual growth for a decade under Rendanheyi.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

Introduction to Haier's 4,000 self-managing micro-enterprises and the internal market that connects them.

Corporate Rebels · Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.

How Haier's model was transplanted into its German subsidiary.

Leadermorphosis (podcast) · Lisa Gill

Academic and platform-design perspectives on Haier's thousands of micro-enterprises.

IE Insights (IE University) · Zhang Ruimin

Spanish business school video: Zhang explains turning the enterprise into a self-organisation.

Chief Executive · Chief Executive

How RenDanHeYi transformed GE Appliances after Haier's acquisition.

Gary Fox (blog) · Gary Fox

Explainer of Ren-Dan-HeYi and Zhang's 'law of entropy' critique of traditional management.

Springer (Zohar, Quantum Management) · Danah Zohar

Chapter arguing the model — self-organising micro-units on platforms — is a template beyond Haier.

California Management Review (SAGE) · Frynas, Mol & Mellahi

CMR 61(1): how Haier built the Rendanheyi platform of practices; an extended process model of management innovation.

OrgDev (Substack) · OrgDev newsletter

Notes from a Corporate Rebels session with Bayer's Michael Lurie and Lars Bruening.

Knowledge at Wharton · Wharton

Zhang, in New York, on turning every department into a micro-enterprise and eliminating 10,000 middle managers who created no value for users.

Il Sole 24 Ore (English edition) · Il Sole 24 Ore

Retells the 1984 origin story — Zhang having workers smash 76 defective fridges — as the birth of RenDanHeYi's user-connection philosophy.

INSEAD Knowledge · INSEAD

Zhang on Rendanheyi's goal of 'changing a whole garden into a rain forest' and Haier's $40bn revenue under the model.

IMD · IMD faculty

An IMD consultant who has worked with Haier for years on how the RenDanHeYi platform keeps attracting and exploiting new ideas.

HuffPost · Doug Kirkpatrick

Report from the Rendanheyi Forum in Qingdao — dubbed 'the Davos of 21st-century management' — and Zhang's call to simplify and adapt.

Corporate Rebels · Corporate Rebels

On Zhang's claim that Chinese firms have run out of foreign templates and had to invent Rendanheyi themselves.

PR Newswire · Haier Group

Announcement of Rendanheyi 2.0 and the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award nomination for 'destruction of middle management layers'.

Goodreads · Book notes

Reader highlights on Haier's internal talent pool (three months to find a goal or leave) and open peer-ranking system for productivity and profitability.

Haier Group (official site) · Haier Group

Haier's own press release on its Gary Hamel-co-organised Rendanheyi Forum, framed as the IoT era's answer to Davos.

PressReleasePoint · Haier Group / MLab

Announcement of the inaugural 2017 forum, jointly run by Gary Hamel's Management Lab and Haier, dubbed 'the Davos of the management world'.

Haier Group (official site) · Haier Group / Qingdao Municipal Government

Programme page listing speakers including Steve Denning (London Business School) and IMA president Jeffrey Thomson, under the theme 'Platform the Value, Industry the Force'.

Business Wire · Business Wire

Press coverage of the 2020 forum's 'Autopoiesis and Coevolution' theme, including a case of Fujitsu Western Europe adopting Rendanheyi mid-pandemic.

davidjteece.com · David J. Teece

Berkeley strategy professor David Teece's own account of speaking at the forum alongside Gary Hamel and Rosabeth Moss Kanter to 1,200 attendees.