IMPRÉVU PERMANENT
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Entretien pour VeilleMag : 2026 appartient aux organisations capables de fonctionner durablement dans l’imprévu
Accélération brutale de l’IA générative. Tensions géopolitiques persistantes. Quête de sens renouvelée chez les salariés. 2025 a été une année charnière pour les organisations. Dans l’entretien que j’ai donné à Jacqueline Sala pour VeilleMag, je reviens sur cette...
L’imprévu est la norme : Comment diriger ?
Pendant longtemps, diriger consistait à optimiser, prévoir et contrôler dans un monde relativement stable. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes entrés dans une incertitude structurelle : l’imprévu est devenu la règle. Face à ces secousses répétées, la robustesse ne provient pas...
AUTRES ARTICLES
Our article in the Journal of Organization Design
Together with Gilles Arnaud, we have published an article titled “The Liberated Company Theoretical Concept: Current Issues and the Intimidating Complexity of Organizational Design.” Among other topics, we discuss several pressing issues that 15 years of research on...
Financial Times on ESG, the altruistic enterprise, and more
Andrew Hill a leading FT business and management editor took on the ESG debate, which earlier was carried under the names of CSR, Benefit Corporation, and more in his recent article. I am happy he used in his article several talks we had previously on the topics of...
As AI expands, companies must allow employees to rethink their jobs
Here is our article in LSE Business Review Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the business world. It is not the first time that technologies have done so. Decision support systems, expert systems (already integrating AI) and knowledge management...
WSJ op-ed on Royal Mail
Free the Workers, Fix the Post Office by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz OCTOBER 30, 2009 This month's disruptive strikes at the Royal Mail are the fifth such industrial actions to hit the post office in the past 30 years. As we went to press it was still possible...
Isaac’s article in “Leadership Excellence”
Leaders of the Free Culture by Isaac Getz AUGUST, 2011 Truman is said to have mused about Eisenhower taking over the president’s office, issuing orders only to discover that nothing gets done in the bureaucratic swamp. But this fine politician underestimated “Ike.”...
What can ‘liberated companies’ teach HR?
Our Op-Ed in the British HR Magazine in Dec. 2016 Freedom- and responsibility-based companies are spreading all over the world but the region where the ‘corporate liberation’ movement is strongest is just across the Channel. In France and Belgium this movement...
Hierarchies are unnatural – it’s time for a liberating revolution
Our Feb. 22 comment in the UK magazine People Management Hierarchies – accepted by most as the ‘normal way’ of running a business – are unnatural, since they are counter to universal human needs. The hierarchical workplace as we know it today emerged during the...
What is corporate liberation? – Changeboard HR community
Imagine you are watching a boat of eight rowers training for a big race in the middle of a lake. You hear the whistle blow, and puzzled by what you’re seeing, you ask the coach: “It doesn’t seem that the boat is moving”. To what the coach replies: “It’s because I...
Why work/life balance needs a rethink
Our Op-Ed in the British HR Magazine in June 2017 Why work/life balance needs a rethink Isaac Getz, JUNE 19, 2017 Our time is split into two boxes: 'work' – things we earn money for – and 'life' – things we do outside of work. HR takes care of the work box, leaving...
Our Changeboard Op-ed on Work Stress
Three British psychologists, Hans Bosma, Steven Stansfeld and Michael Marmot, spent five years studying the stress levels of more than 10,000 British civil servants. Their findings showed that men perceiving little control over their jobs are 50% more likely to...