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WorldBlu Founder LIVE at the Ross School of Business
Check out WorldBlu Founder Traci Fenton in action in this video from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Traci spoke about organizational democracy and WorldBlu to UM students studying with Prof. Gretchen Spreitzer, an expert in employee empowerment and leadership development. The link plays a recording of Traci’s speech and displays the accompanying powerpoint [...]
Continuum performs lay-offs democratically
Continuum, a third-time WorldBlu List awardee based in West Newton, Massachusetts, was featured in an article by the Christian Science Monitor: “Good ways to deliver bad news.” Continuum is a global design and innovation consultancy with offices in Boston, Milan, and Seoul.
Due to the economic climate, Continuum had to complete a 14% staff reduction this [...]
Fenton interviewed for examiner.com
Steve Arneson, Leadership Examiner for examiner.com, interviewed WorldBlu Founder Traci Fenton about WorldBlu’s work and posted his summary of the conversation in a article on the examiner.com.
In the article, Fenton explains organizational democracy and the decision-making process at WorldBlu List awardee GE- Durham, while Arneson poses some great questions about what the implications are for [...]
Rypple uses equity to drive innovation
Daniel DeBow, the co-CEO of Rypple, a WorldBlu List 2009 awardee, discusses in an article by Axiom News the powerful impact of engaging employees with a positive mission and a financial investment in a company’s success.
At Rypple, the company achieves this by offering an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and by crafting the mission [...]
The spill-over effect of organizational democracy
Axiom News, a third-time WorldBlu List awardee and media outlet in Peterborough, Canada, shares some of its democratic best practices and motivations behind practicing organizational democracy in an article that the company released in April.
Of particular note, Peter Pula, Axiom’s CEO, says organizational democracy is important to Axiom News because it spills into the social [...]
