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A Radical Enterprise

By Matt K. Parker

Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations

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In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.

  • Publication Date February 22, 2022
  • Pages 192
  • Paperback Dimensions 6 x 9 inches, black and white
  • Paperback ISBN 9781950508006
  • eBook ISBN 9781950508020
  • Kindle ISBN 9781950508037
  • Audiobook ISBN 9781950508013

Features

  • New Ideas

    The Four Imperatives show how a radically collaborative workplace helps retain and recruit talent in a competitive market.

  • Urgent Need

    The Great Resignation isn’t going away. It’s a necessary realignment in business practices needed to succeed. This book shows ways to adopt new, better ways of doing business.

  • Future Business

    In a time of disruption, this book illuminates the future of successful businesses by highlighting large and small radically collaborative organizations working today and how they dominate their sector.

  • Broad Appeal

    If your company has knowledge workers or you are one yourself, this book is relevant for your company and you.

About the Book

The tomato sauce in your pantry. The raincoat in your closet. The smart TV hanging in your living room. What do all of these products have in common? Chances are they were created by organizations where colleagues self-allocate into teams based on intrinsic motivation. Where individuals self-manage their commitments to each other without the coercion of managers. And where teams launch new products and ventures on the market without the control of leaders.

These organizations represent a new, radically collaborative breed of corporation. Recently doubling in number and already comprising 8% of corporations around the world, scientists and researchers have discovered that radically collaborative organizations are more competitive on practically every meaningful financial measure. They enjoy higher market share, higher innovation, and higher customer satisfaction than their traditional corporate competitors—and they also enjoy higher engagement, loyalty, and motivation from their employees.

In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.

Millions of workers around the world are collapsing under the weight of command-and-control culture. The crisis has reached its breaking point. Now is the time to embrace radical change. Discover the revolutionary shift to partnership and equality and the economic superiority that follows with A Radical Enterprise.

Matt K. Parker
Matt K. Parker

Matt K. Parker

Matt K. Parker is a writer, speaker, researcher, and third-generation programmer. Over the last two decades, he's played a variety of roles in the software industry, including developer, manager, director, and global head of engineering. He has specialized in hyper-iterative software practices for the last decade, and is currently researching the experience of radically collaborative software makers. He lives in a small village in Connecticut with his wife and three children. You can contact him by visiting mattkparker.com.

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"Matt takes years of intuition and learnings from the bleeding edge of hypergrowth software organizations and codifies them in a framework that applies to any knowledge-work business. It's an exciting glimpse into the future of work we should all strive to achieve."

Ross Hale

CEO, Artium

"Management as we know it is a century-old, outdated technology; we need to radically reinvent how we organize and collaborate to rise to the challenges of our time, and this book offers some powerful tools for that journey."

Brian J. Robertson

author of Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

"What I found most refreshing about this book is that it speaks to what is key and important to becoming a Radically Collaborative workplace and producing tangible results. And it's about how our world is going to metamorphosize from a system of domination to one of collaboration."

Matt Perez

cofounder of Nearsoft and coauthor of RADICAL COMPANIES

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