Want to Drive Change? Get This Team
How to design the right change leadership team
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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