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How is your company wired? How to make it spin and fly? 3 transparent and open models
This week’s FYI Weekly is focused on 3 real-life use cases of transparent and open business & organizational models across the industries tech and luxury goods.
How is your company wired? How to make it spin and fly?
We focus on company sizes small (less than 50), scaled-up (250-ish people) and mid-sized (more than 2000). All companies offer shares, however, not all of them are publicly traded.
Check out their practices and learn from it. Even if the company you are working is larger in size.
1/ All-Remote work
Software Product & Platform / Company Size: ±2100
To uphold the GitLab value of being transparent, the handbook is open to the world, You can even make a merge request to suggest improvements or add clarifications. To ask questions, use issues.
Especially noteworthy is their TeamOps model (free training available) and their no-matrix organization.
Gitlab is a 100% remote company and has had their IPO in 2021. Check Nasdaq: GTLB.
Explore "The Handbook" / Get hired
How Gitlab spins and flies - The Dual Flywheel
2/ Circularity at its best
Luxury Goods / Company Size: ± 250
Freitag shares a lot of how they self-organize and build their products in video and audio format. They give away these insights for free to members of their F-EDERATION club. Join and check out their talk about The Bumpy Road Towards Self-Organization.
How Freitag is wired to generate impact
The Impact Report is a great resource on their circular ambitions and their holocracy-based organizational structures.
3/ Autonomy is key
Consulting / Company Size: ±30
Crisp is a consulting company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Their ownership model is designed to keep their stock financially worthless. Sounds weird?! Well, Crisp itself is just a container. The real value are their consultants, and they aren’t even employed by Crisp.
The model has helped us be happy and make a positive impact in the world, and publishing it may help others do the same.
Everyone can do whatever they want? No! Yes? Within reason! As long as it does not hurt the brand and respects their home. In addition, there are dedicated processes (Decision Making, Conflict Resolution, Request Routing) as well as communication guardrails in place.
Get crispier / How to join (it's hard!)