Building resilient organizations

Aside from a penchant for indiscriminate destruction and a history of facing off against outlandish villains, both characters belong to two of the longest-running, most prolific movie series ever. Since 1962, James Bond has gone on 24 big-screen missions (26 if you count the “unofficial” Bond films released in 1967 and 1983), and Godzilla has...

Across industries, markets, and the world around, all companies have something in common: someone always needs to be in charge, right? Maybe, maybe not. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently began to transition the company from a traditional management structure to a self-managing, self-organizing model—no bosses, no managers, no bureaucracy to hinder creativity and innovation. In...

The disparity is stark. Women represent 57 percent of college students and 47 percent of the workforce in the United States, yet fewer than seven percent of women are CEOs at Fortune 500 companies. The percentage of women elected to Congress continues to hover around 20 percent. To say “Women don’t seek high-level positions” is...