What Is Radical Management?^sm

Radical Management^sm is a way of managing organizations that generates at the same time high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and customer delight. Radical Management^sm is fundamentally different from the traditional management prevalent in large organizations today.

The principles of Radical Management^sm help business leaders to build valuable organizations in a world of rapid change and intense global competition.

The principles of Radical Management^sm are:

- A shift in goal from making money for shareholders to delighting customers through continuous innovation.
- A shift in the role of managers from controlling individuals to enabling self-organizing teams.
- A shift in the way work is coordinated from bureaucracy to dynamic linking.
- A shift in values from a preoccupation with efficiency to a broader set of values that will foster continuous innovation.
- A shift in communications from top-down commands to horizontal communications.

While none of these elements individually is new, what is new is doing all of them together as an integrated approach.

Radical Management^sm was unveiled initially in my personal blog in 2010 and then my book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management, which was published in October 2010.

I have been blogging in a column on Forbes entitled Radical Management: Rethinking Leadership and Innovation on a daily basis since January 2011,

Radical Management^sm is being promoted through the following activities, now under way or being planned:

- workshops, conferences, webinars, seminars, training, symposia and other gatherings about Radical Management^sm.
- books, articles, blogs, newsletters, guides and templates about Radical Management^sm.
- websites, wikis, apps, and other electronic modes of communicating Radical Management^sm.
- television and radio appearances, podcasts and webcasts about Radical Management^sm.
- prizes, awards and certification and recognition for practitioners of Radical Management^sm.
- performance criteria and standards about Radical Management^sm.

Articles abour Radical Management

• Lessons in radical management from a village in France
• Why we are not being delighted (by the Fortune 20)
• Why we have a financial crisis:
  radical transparency vs
  the age of bullsh*t
• Creating high-performance teams
• High-performance teams and Scrum
• What is exceptional performance?
• Why the conventional wisdom is wrong
• High-performance teams at Total Attorneys
• High-performance workshops and conferences
• Kindling the spirit of high-performance
• Cross-functional teams that aren't
• Most high-performance teams are self-organizing teams
• The spirit of high-performance: delighting clients and stakeholders
• Smithsonian storytelling symposium 2010: audio tapes

Book reviews

• The Difference by Scott Page
• User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford

To read the preface and introduction of The Leader's Guide to Radical Management, go here Listen to a FREE conversation with Steve Denning and Seth Kahan recorded on March 15, 2010 in which Steve discusses the elements of radical management (mp3, 5 megs, 15 minutes) Participate in an interactive workshop on radical management in Washington DC on May 27-28, 2010 with Steve Denning and Seth Kahan. For full details, go here