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Excited to see the publication of Meget Mere End Empowerment! Fra Hierarki Til Selvledende Organisering i Praksis [Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization] from Content Publishing in Denmark on August 20, 2025! Buy here: https://contentpub.eu/produkt/meget-mere-end-empowerment/
The Italian version of Beyond Empowerment hit bestseller status in Italy as of August 11, 2020, thanks to Pietro Antolini, Federica Valentini and their fab colleagues at Indaco, with help from the art direction of Buko Software & Communication (and some nice Youtube promo vids linked below)… https://bit.ly/30SFXtT https://youtu.be/OuQtRhPIQlE https://youtu.be/whTaYILSM2E
My friend Pietro Antolini and his colleagues at Indaco created the beautiful Italian version of Beyond Empowerment and launched it on July 6, 2020… Now available on Kindle… https://amzn.to/2CMVouA From the description at Italian bookseller Feltrinelli… “Beyond empowerment” racconta la storia di un imprenditore che, per eliminare la burocrazia e superare le difficoltà nei rapporti…
Did a fun interview with Jennifer Hancock of the International Humanistic Management Association in January, 2019… http://umanisticmanagement.international/doug-kirkpatrick-beyond-empowerment-to-self-management
Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, selects writings that have inspired him. https://www.london.edu/lbsr/gary-hamel-book-list
Influenced by the book Beyond Empowerment by Doug Kirkpatrick, the team at Apollo Group is using a self-management structure in their contact centers and shared services group. This shifts the role of a manager into one of a strategic leader, responsible for staff development and cross organizational relationships. This structure works very well to nurture their KCS …
The backpacking French Baroudeurs, represented by François Force, interviewed me for an article in the fall of 2017. Here is the link to their article in French: https://www.frenchbaroudeurs.com/post/doug-kirkpatrick-le-self-management-ou-la-libert%C3%A9-responsable And here is the English translation:
I recently received a beautifully-written and completely unsolicited review of my book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization from my friend Natalia Sadikova in Russia. Here is the photo she used to accompany her review on Facebook. Included are both the English and Russian versions. Thanks, Natalia! First, the English version…
“We Don’t Sell Carpets; We Sell a Family’s Blessing” Nand Kishore Chaudhary, known to his close colleagues as NKC, is a man on a mission. The humble founder of Jaipur Rugs, now employing 40,000 weavers making hand-knotted decorative rugs for sale in forty countries, is theorizing how to elevate the collaborative and decision-making powers of…
Presented the power and purpose of organizational self-management at the 2nd China Organizational Evolution Forum 2018 in Shanghai, sponsored by CirclePlus… great to be joined by Beyond Empowerment (Chinese edition) co-author Landy Tang, Frederic LaLoux, George Pór, James Priest, Lili David, Weidong Lu, Leona Lau and many others…
By Milton Pedraza, CEO of Luxury Institute and EIX, and Doug Kirkpatrick, US Partner, NuFocus Strategic Group (NEW YORK) June 12, 2018 – As the 21st century roars on, rapidly advancing technology such as the Internet, mobile devices and artificial intelligence, have generated intense global interconnectivity that drives massive interdependence within and between organizations and individuals. Focused on implementing technology,…
Was privileged to deliver a keynote and launch the snazzy second edition of Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization on August 1, 2017 at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Agile Expo Day in Washington, D.C.! We had representatives of the United States Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, United States Navy,…
