Numbers that close arguments.
The verified statistics of the self-management field, ready to quote in a proposal, a keynote or a client meeting. Click a card to copy the citation with its source.
Global engagement fell to 20 percent in 2024, only the second decline in twelve years, and managers fell fastest.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025Gallup prices the engagement drop of 2024 alone at 438 billion dollars in lost productivity worldwide.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025Four in ten employees worldwide report a lot of stress on any given day, and the number has barely moved since the pandemic peak.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025Europe runs the lowest regional engagement Gallup measures, which makes the continent the hardest room and the biggest upside for participative management.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025After adopting RenDanHeYi, the US subsidiary grew sales roughly 11 percent in a year its market declined about 1 percent, the cleanest recent P&L for bossless operating.
RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026Haier operates 4,000-plus self-managing micro-enterprises across roughly 70,000 employees, the standing answer to "self-management cannot scale".
RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026The cohort of companies formally experimenting with RenDanHeYi passed one hundred, Embraer and Mercedes-Benz among them, up from about seventy a year earlier.
RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026Bayer’s own account of Dynamic Shared Ownership states management layers halved and management roles reduced by roughly two thirds across a 100,000-person company.
Bayer, Dynamic Shared Ownership (official)The DSO transformation carries a stated 2 billion euro savings target and 3,500 internally trained champions, which makes it Europe’s largest live test of the model.
Bayer, Dynamic Shared Ownership (official)Isaac Getz counts some 500 organisations that adopted the liberated-company philosophy, and warns that every one that treated it as a template failed.
Leadermorphosis, Ep. 106 (2026)Across four generations, the youngest workers showed the lowest trust in large language models and the lowest ratings of their accuracy, against every digital-native assumption.
Four-generation study, on our research radar 2026MIT SMR published its final issue in 2026 after 67 years, a marker that management knowledge production is moving from journals to running companies.
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2026German firm data shows companies facing scarcity lower hiring standards rather than raise pay, and 84 percent of the true cost arrives after the contract is signed, in onboarding and ramp.
Labour Economics, on our research radar 2026The Bucket List catalogues more than 200 visited pioneers by country and industry, the closest thing the movement has to an evidence database for "who already does this in my sector".
Corporate Rebels, Bucket ListThe Corporate Rebels Summit convenes roughly 350 practitioners from more than 30 countries in November, with Ricardo Semler headlining and access by application only.
Corporate Rebels Summit, 2026