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Hacks

To tackle big, thorny challenges, you need big, unconventional ideas.

That’s what you’ll find here: boundary-pushing proposals for changing the way organizations work and leaders lead — from setting strategy to allocating resources to designing work to rewarding and compensating individuals.

Check out the disruptive ideas and radical fixes posted by your fellow MIXers below — and join them in stirring the pot by proposing your own. A hack can be as seemingly basic as a better way to run meetings or as high-stakes as a complete overhaul of the compensation system — as long as it turns the tables on management-as-usual and offers up a pathway to progress on one of the moonshots.

The MIX Lab / Hacks

A dynamic collection of real-world case studies from the MIX community

Top executives’ tentatively agree on the BIG Rocks (strategic changes).  Then provide the Big Rocks to managers and staff and ask them to identify what they think are the Big Rocks.  The res
Hack by George Neufeld on November 27, 2012
With me being an active participant within the MIX community, I am being humbled and honored to see that the theme behind the current MIX challenge (i.e.
Hack by Charles Prabakar on November 26, 2012
Innovation is the process of brining the new into the world. And the new cannot come from the mind, i.e through thinking. If you carefully understand the mind, it consists of only knowledge.
Hack by Arnab Sinha on November 25, 2012
As outline Innovation only happens when a company culture values and supports innovative b
Hack by siobhan O'keeffe on November 21, 2012
License to failYears ago I read a book called “Teaching the Elephant to Dance.” The key concept in the book is captured in this metaphor the author describes.Apparently when elephants are trained in a
Hack by Sridhar Ramanathan on November 20, 2012
Innovation requirers shrinking the size of an organization into manageable piece.  Innovating and the culturization of that innovation can happen more effectively in smaller environments.
Hack by Eric Curtis on November 20, 2012
Co-Authored By Eric Curtis
Every innovation will have a measurable impact on any given process, hence make it a point to measure the impact of such innovation to emphasize the benefit it passes on to the organization, society e
Hack by Ananda kumar on November 14, 2012
Traditional management implies someone higher in the hierarchy is managing my performance. People can only manage their own performance.
Hack by Peter Bunce on November 8, 2012
 1 Contesting(even opposing)in politics, or military, can not only facilitate social progress in terms of science and technology, liberty and democracy and so on, but also have devastating conseq
Hack by Aaron Brook on November 6, 2012
Working as a manager at Zappos, I created this hack when my own team was ready to lynch me! We really needed to get our team aligned, fast.
Hack by Robert Richman on November 4, 2012
Ideas need brains that know the right stuff – simple but difficult to find in the past.
Hack by Gavin McLeod on November 3, 2012

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