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Australian Financial Review - “Future Firms Will Go By the (Open) Book”

The Australian Financial Review just published an excellent piece about WorldBlu and several WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2009 awardees. The piece is entitled, “Future Firms Will Go By the (Open) Book,” by Fiona Smith.
Ms. Smith called me to do an interview just as we announced the WorldBlu List 2009 and I was so [...]

“StudioBlu podcasts to tell the story of democratic organizations”

WorldBlu President Traci Fenton is busy interviewing inspiring CEOs of WorldBlu List companies, acclaimed authors, and organizational democracy thought leaders in preparation for WorldBlu’s upcoming launch of its StudioBlu podcast show in May.
Axiom News interviewed Traci about the details in this article.
Stay tuned for the release of the first several shows, which you will be [...]

Mexico’s first WorldBlu List awardee shares best practices

Nearsoft, a software product development company based in Hermosillo, Mexico with an office in San Jose, California, is the first Latin American company to make the WorldBlu List.
Matt Perez, the COO of this forward-thinking company, shares about the inspiration and practice of democracy in their empowering workplace in this article: “Nearsoft commits to evolving workplace [...]

“Generation Think Tank embraces organizational democracy”

New to this year’s WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces is Generation Think Tank, a Boulder, Colorado-based progressive marketing consultancy that helps companies learn how to work with Generation Y.
Axiom News just published an article about Generation Think Tank entitled, “Generation Think Tank embraces organizational democracy.”
Read the article and learn more about GTT on their [...]

Beyond Borders and Brainpark collaborate on “35 Laptops for Haiti” initiative

Watch these amazing videos by Beyond Borders- Florida, WorldBlu List awardee for three years in a row, about their “35 Laptops for Haiti” initiative, which aims to bring laptops to Haitian teachers and leaders.
Beyond Borders promotes participatory leadership and discussion based education approaches in Haiti that empower people and invite creativity and innovation.
This initiative is [...]

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