On Operating as an Open Organization

This is a sort of curation of sources that can help in thinking about what it means to be us doing the work we are doing together. If you know of a resource that can help in these ways, please share it:

Jim Whitehurst/Red Hat

-Organize for Innovation [[1]]

In this e-book, Whitehurstshares some good insights into how a meritocracy works and how to get there from traditional hierarchical organization structure

-The Open Organization Book Series [[2]]

More where the first one came from

The Good Project, from Harvard's Project Zero

-video summary [[3]]

-website [[4]]

This resource is focused on education, but has relevance for other types of organizations. Ideas about what it means to be involved in good work and to having a sense of being fulfilled. Suggests three E's: Ethical, Engagement and Excellence.