3 Ways Etsy’s Parental Leave Policy Demonstrates Generosity At Work
For so many reasons, Etsy has been one of my leading examples of companies practicing Generosity At Work. I rely on Etsy’s Code As Craft initiative to illustrate the strategy […]
What Makes Digital Tech Companies Models of Generativity?
Buffer, WordPress, AirBnB, Waze, LoveWithFood, ModCloth, Etsy— so many of the organizations I’m using as examples of generative businesses share a similar profile: They are relatively small, young, organized around […]
Defining Thick Value in a Boost Economy
Thick value has many simultaneous kinds of positive meaning, that are stacked, nested, embedded, and fused with each other into layers that are weighty with significance. Thick value has more meaning and conveys more about why it’s valuable. When we pay attention to thick value, we make choices that help us maximize more than financial profit or system efficiency.
Self-Reliance Versus Interdependence in The Boost Economy
Being independent and “going it alone” can feel very satisfying. Our culture prizes independent initiative, so much so that we often overlook the importance of working with each other to […]
Investigating The Boost Economy
For some time now, I’ve been trying to identify the thread that ties together all the different topics I write about here on AuthenticOrganizations. Other than the fact that they […]
"Add Women and Stir" Won't Keep Women In Tech
How do we get and keep more women in technology-related careers? How do we increase the number of women creators, makers, designers, and coders? Why not just add more women to […]
Sharing Success in Etsy's Community of Commerce
The most promising feature of a community of commerce is the way that members in that community work to ensure each other’s success, even if helping others costs them something. […]
Company Character Grows From Place Identity
What do start-ups and coffee beans have in common? For both, the place they grow shapes who they become. We don’t talk much about the role of place in shaping […]
Extended Organizations: Finding the Boundaries and Naming the Contents
Can you help me out with a messy research-related question? What are the best ways to set boundaries around subsets of an “extended organization”, and then give these subsets names […]
Communities of Commerce: Where the Marketplace is also the Meaning Place
Networks of people and organizations are usually either “markets” or “communities”. It bothers us that networks fit one or the other model of working together, because we envision something more […]