MIX Hits of 2012

As an open innovation and collaborative platform, the MIX is able to thrive thanks to the contributions of the most progressive leaders, provocative management thinkers, and in-the-trenches management innovators—indeed, anyone with ideas for making our organizations fit for the 21st century.

As we begin a new year, we’d like to recognize the five most popular Hacks, Stories, Videos, and Blog Posts of 2012, based on traffic.

Top 5 Hacks

• The end of performance management (as we know it) by Bjarte Bogsnes
• Retire-a-Little: Enabling More Fulfilled Working Lives by Ricardo Semler
• Social Architecture (a manifesto) by Luc Galoppin
• CSR 2.0: Reinventing Corporate Social Responsibility for the 21st Century by Wayne Visser
• Mapping of Porter’s value chain activities into business functional units by Avijit Saha

Top 5 Stories

• Growing People: The Heart of the Organizational Transformation by Pamela Weiss and Todd Pierce
• Taking reality seriously - towards a more self-regulating management model at Statoil by Bjarte Bogsnes
• Atlassian's Big Experiment with Performance Reviews by Joris Luijke
• Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore's Original Management Model by Gary Hamel
• Nike’s Gameplan for Growth that’s Good for All by Lorrie Vogel

Top 5 MIX TV Videos

• Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment by Gary Hamel
• What makes people tick at work? by Daniel Pink
• Are you outbehaving the competition? by Dov Seidman
• Gary Hamel at Dell: What are the biggest challenges for organizations today? by Gary Hamel
• What is innovation? by Jim Stikeleather

Top 5 Blog posts

• What Makes Apple Apple by Gary Hamel
• When nobody (and everybody) is the boss by Polly LaBarre
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Innovation Leaders by Jeff DeGraff
• What is business for? 24 Bold Ideas & Experiments for Reinventing Capitalism by Polly LaBarre
• Innovation is a process by Jim Stikeleather

Thanks again to all of those who have shared their insights with the MIX community in 2012.  We look forward to many more pathbreaking contributions in the coming year, starting with the Innovating Innovation challenge (the deadline for submissions is only a few days away, on January 7).