MIX Mashup 2012: 100 Insights from the Crowd
MIX Mashup 2012: 100 Insights from the Crowd
The inaugural MIX Mashup gathered the vanguard of management innovators—pioneering leaders, courageous experimenters, agenda-setting thinkers—to explore disruptive ideas, share fresh thinking and compelling storytelling, and to connect and energize participants in the quest to make our organizations fit for the future and fit for human beings.
The insights were deep and important, the storytelling was human and full of humor, and the collective spirit in the room was powerful and palpable. Here are just 100 of the countless highlights, aha moments, and practically radical takeaways.
@kerry_atx
Gary Hamel: we haven't been aspirational enough or angry enough to reinvent mgmt and make inspirational organizations #mixmashup
@EdEquity4All
How can we build companies that are as fully human as the ppl who work there #MIXMashup
@milindpansare
Fresh air. Hip space. Great thoughts. How all events should be #MIXMashup @hackmanagement #e20 http://t.coNZq6Z3b
@anastasiamaier
The more we expose associates to the tensions, they develop and understand the complexity of business #MIXMashup http://t.co/oBBFiL20
@vishnuswami
Leaders don't lead through command and control but through influence - TerriK #MIXMashup @Ashoka
@kerry_atx
Terri Kelly on natural leadership - you aren't a leader unless you have followers. lead through influence, not command/control #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
It takes longer for decision making in a decentralised environment but you make up for it and it really pays! TerriK #MIXMashup
@milouness
Decisionmaking is vastly overrated. Making decision deludes u n2 thinking u have solved problem. Make sense, not decisions #mixmashup
@EdEquity4All
What if your compensation was determined by your peers, based on your contributions? Terri Kelly (CEO, Gore) #MIXMashup
@anastasiamaier
Discipline vs. bureaucracy...you'll quickly know the difference because your associates will tell you - Terri Kelly #MIXMashup
@gezbrady
love this idea! "@samfw: Ask associates who is making the greatest contribution to the success of the enterprise #MIXMashup"
@maddiegrant
Morning Star- individuals are asked to take total full responsibility for the org. It's NEVER "someone else's job" #mixmashup
@CLCAdvisors
Paul Green: Perfection is the only true goal and what really matters. Later, you look at variances against that goal. #MIXMashup #in
@markpmcdonald
Listen to the language of mgmt innovation. Commitment, mission, purpose freedom, results. #mixmashup
@hackmanagement
Paul Green: If someone is going to be meaningfully impacted or has relevant expertise, get them involved! #MIXMashup
@karinkrameradam
#mixmashup total responsibility requires total freedom. With 50% of freedom you get 50% responsibility. @paulgreen #ilike #growingup
@jamienotter
First big insight today: in traditional organizations we are really good at setting people up for failure. #Mixmashup
@JohnDietrich
Amazing to hear from Jack Hughes how much great work Topcoder gets done, but not by employees. Traditional app dev, be scared. #MIXMashup
@CLCAdvisors
Jack Hughes: At the end of the day, it's not management's job to tell people how to innovate, but how to innovate themselves. #MIXMashup #in
@leapingmac
Not a winner takes all model. All contributions that have value are compensated #mixmashup
@kerry_atx
If you're going to remove trad'l hierarchy as a motivator, replace it with meritocracy, says Top Coder and Tongal #mixmashup
@gezbrady
"How do you change the system when you don't own it." The biggest challenge for companies today? #mixmashup
@kwiens
I wish more engineers would think about this: "We're trying to build a society with an ideal mix between justice and mercy." #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
Forecast, target, resources allocation all cannot be bundled to represent one number - budget. need to separate! -Statoil #MIXMashup
@peterstev
#MIXMashup @bbogsnes: "iterative, not top down. Mindset shifts, theory y visions cannot be implemented with theory x mgmt." /c #stoos
@hackmanagement
Gary Hamel: If you want to hack management you can't do it without changing the core processes #MIXMashup
@kerry_atx
From old model, cramping human potential to one that unleashes, mobilizes, and amplifies human potential - It's a messy journey. #mixmashup
@CLCAdvisors
Protect the front runners from disturbance, criticism & control. Nudge them and highlight their appreciation. Tsukasa Makino #MIXMashup #in
@peterstev
#MIXMashup @tm3886en: hardest part: unleashing employees imprisoned/controlled by mgmt culture. May I tweet that? Of course! /c #stoos
@wardsco
People by nature are creative, helpful & seek growth... Managements role is to enable what's natural #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
Leadership is not about leading people, it is about helping people! - Tsukasa san from Tokio Marine #MIXMashup
@gezbrady
A different management mindset occurs when you say 'helper' not 'leader'. Tsukasa Makino at #mixmashup
@EdEquity4All
Our inspiration is not going to come from realms that we're familiar with @pollylabarre #MIXMashup
@markpmcdonald
Notice the central question kim asks. I need help. What a way to draw people into new ways of thinking #mixmashup
@rikthekirk
A new (to me) Steve Jobs quote overheard at the #MIXMashup in San Fran today: "It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
@pollylabarre
Mgmt by Excel. No time/$ Is just our excuse. @kimspinder on how to hack the status quo--no budget/permission needed. #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
Its not think, think and do, it is about "do to think" this is at the dschool BobS and DavidK #MIXMashup AHA!
@kerry_atx
David Kelly: Teach students by giving them a project to solve real world problems. How 'bout giving challenge to employees, too? #mixmashup
@gezbrady
"This bluesky stuff is not linear, it's messy, there's failure.That's why you have to celebrate small successes" David Kelley at #mixmashup
@samfw
Desensitize yourself to failure, just do something and iterate on it... via David Kelley #MIXMashup
@CLCAdvisors
Creative confidence: surprise with success. Stack the deck such that a group has success. Use initial success to build on. #in #MIXMashup
@gezbrady
David Kelley at #mixmashup: "everyone is wildly creative; you just have to take the blocks away. We help people remember their child's mind"
@paul_hemp
Job of management is to enthuse, encourage, enable employees to create incremental value in the "value zone." Vineet Nayar #MIXMashup
@gezbrady
"When Gandhi walked to the Ocean, he never spoke a word, but 200,000 people followed him. Actions really speak louder than words" #mixmashup
@milindpansare
For change you need to first create positive dissatisfaction. If you do not know you are a slave why will you fight for freedom? #MIXMashup
@peterstev
#MIXMashup @vineetnayar our goal is growth, not employee happiness. Happiness is means to the end. /c #Stoos
@rebelsatwork
People like to participate in experiments & love to sabotage pilots. A pilot is management's idea being imposed on them #MIXMashup
@vishnuswami
Can innovation be everyone's job? former whirlpool CEO set up a team in 1999. #MIXMashup
@rebelsatwork
Smarter ure organization, more introverts u have. If u don't take introverts n2 account, ure innovation strategy is underpowered #MIXMashup
@vishnuswami
Knowledge transfer never works, keep employees with you long after they left your orgn. JimL #MixMashup AhA! http://t.co/xXUjFPYB
@hackmanagement
Steve Wallin: I challenge the notion of listening to employees once a quarter - listening means "always on" #MIXMashup
@rebelsatwork
#MIXMashup discussion right now reminds that all excellence in organizations comes from people offering mission their discretionary energy
@kerry_atx
Red Hat - go slow, to go fast. feeding the monster of inclusion works b/c people find bugs. #mixmashup
@gezbrady
"If you keep trying to put an ROI on customer insights, then you don't really understand their value" Steve Wallin, Best Buy, at #mixmashup
@hackmanagement
Steve Wallin: we tend to blame the ideas if we don't know what to do them. #MIXMashup
@peterstev
#MIXmashup @jaysimons 5 values: 1) open company, no BS 2) build with heart and balance 3) don't f*ck the customer 4) play as a team
@kerry_atx
The indicator of a highly inventive company is one that creates its own memes. See Atlassian and skitchslap. #mixmashup
@peterstev
#MIXmashup @jaysimons there's lots of suck in our employee feedback survey - replaced with a mood app
@vishnuswami
engaging with employees regularly and informally results in less grumbling @jaysimons AhA. #MIXMashup
@vishnuswami
"In case of fire exit the building before tweeting about it"sign at atlassian @jaysimons #MIXMashup
@maddiegrant
"if you treat a community like an audience they will behave like an audience" -Drew Williams, sr pastor, Trinity Church #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
Fail forward and celebrate small - crux of working with volunteers and communities DrewW #MIXMashup deep insight.
@vishnuswami
Low control and high accountability - key to decentralised leadership - DrewW #MIXMashup another deep insight
@maddiegrant
Hamel: the future of organizations are communities of communities. Amen, brother. #mixmashup
@karinkrameradam
Applications to take part in managementdevelopment: great idea. #participation #systemsintelligence #mixmashup
@kerry_atx
I have experienced how a quick check-in before a mtg can raise productivity. Growing Whole People is real. For cynics, its ROI. #mixmashup
@jgilbertogarcia
Conscious leaders are driven by firm's purpose rather than self-enrichment #MIXMashup http://t.co/StKggBk8
@jonathanopp
Our resources are limited, but our creativity is limitless. -John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO #MIXMashup
@peterstev
#MIXMashup John Mackey: the only ones who will truly happy in the 21st century will be those who learn to serve.
@kerry_atx
integrity = the most important virtue conscious leaders need to cultivate: authenticity, fairness, trustworthiness, moral courage #mixmashup
@pollylabarre
Single biggest problem in the corp world is that LOVE is in the closet. John Mackey closing keynote #mixmashup
@milindpansare
Innovation and creativity are stifled in organizations where people are afraid: John Mackey, whole foods #MIXMashup
@kerry_atx
leaders need to be entrepreneurs of meaning. people are moving up maslow's hierarchy of needs. they want meaning, purpose #mixmashup
@kerry_atx
practice contemplative practices. don't feed your body or mind junk. develop emotional, spiritual and systems intelligence #mixmashup
@vishnuswami
11 hours of intense sessions, hundreds of tweets, amazing lunches am jetlagged, tired and fried but it shows how awesome #MIXMashup was! YAY
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