Nurturing Your Feminist Business: Generative strategies for growth
How does a feminist business grow? We all know that growing as a feminist business means something beyond “scaling” or getting bigger. While some of us do want our business […]
Feminist Business Values: A Quick Introduction
When we talk about putting “feminist values” into practice in our businesses, which specific values are we actually talking about? There’s also no definitive list of feminist values and feminist […]
What if Uber Were a Feminist Business?
With the resignation of Uber’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, it would appear that critics of the company’s sexist culture have won. The remaining executives, board members, and investors plan to set […]
Stocksy: A Business Model That Designs Generosity Into Ownership and Profit
If you want to build generosity into the core logic of your organization, the best way to do this — by far — is to build generosity right into your […]
Generative Business Practice: Questions from Harvard’s Digital Initiative
I got lots of feedback from the folks who participated in the HBS Digital Initiative seminar where I presented some big picture ideas about generative practices. As promised, I’m […]
From Generativity to Generosity: What's at the core of these new business practices?
I’m experimenting with shifting from generativity to generosity to describe what’s unique about the business processes I’ve been studying, trying to distill these ideas into a form that’s simple and […]
Generativity, in General
The word ‘generative’ may be unfamiliar to many business people, but the quality of generativity is something we’ve sought in our companies and our work practices for a long time. […]
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 […]
What's a Generative Organization?
What word captures the central quality of a Boost organization? Generative. What word seems weird to a whole lot of business people? Generative. Funny how that works. Now, what to […]