How to design the right change leadership team
If you want to change fast, do it alone. If you want to create long-lasting change, do it together.
Nupedia, the precursor to Wikipedia, was a failure. The organization was designed with a top-down approach. There were seven-stage review processes and endless committees.
This command-and-control culture made it impossible to do any work at Nupedia.
Jimmy Wales, the catalyst behind Wikipedia, took a different route. He understood that long-lasting change is built by a group, not by one person.
The Hidden Power of Instigators
In Wikipedia, a large team of collaborators runs the operation, not the CEO. They all change and evolve together.
By implementing an editing policy based on trust, Wales was able to build a decentralized, successful company. He created the vision and then stepped back.
In The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom build a case for letting a catalyst, not a CEO, lead …
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