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Episodes about Zhang Ruimin

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Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero - Leadermorphosis episode 54: Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation

Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation

Bill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD and Simone Cicero is the cofounder of Boundaryless and co-creator of the Platform Design Toolkit. We talk about what they have learned from years of studying and collaborating with the Chinese company Haier Group, whose Rendanheyi organisational model has been praised internationally as one of the most revolutionary management ideas of the 21st century. Our conversation explores the extraordinary leadership of CEO Zhang Ruimin, eliminating bureaucracy, designing an organisation to enable thousands of self-managed microenterprises, and what this model means for the future of work.

Ep. 54 10 Sept 2020
Doug Kirkpatrick - Leadermorphosis episode 14: Doug Kirkpatrick from The Self-Management Institute on principles for self-managing organisations

Doug Kirkpatrick from The Self-Management Institute on principles for self-managing organisations

Doug Kirkpatrick, co-founder of The Self-Management Institute, original team member of Morning Star and author of “Beyond Empowerment”, shares his insights about common misconceptions of self-management, what it really takes to have self-management work, and the example of Haier (the largest appliance manufacturer in the world) in China which is organised into 4,000 self-managing teams.

Ep. 14 8 Feb 2018