How does a business gets things done when there’s no boss and no-one is in control? Morning Star, the world’s largest tomato processing company, proves you don't need managers to run a successful company.
Morning Star is a California-based tomato processing company that adopted self-management in 1990. It is also the largest tomato processing company in the world, handles 40 percent of California's processed tomato crop.
Founder Chris Rufer walked in with a set of principles that the team agreed would form the basis of an entirely different approach to running a company. Now with over 400 colleagues, one of the original team members, Doug Kirkpatrick, explains how things get done when you don’t have a boss and no one is in control. In this interview, you’ll learn:
- How decisions are made
- How accountability is established
- What are the key characteristics behind successful self-management
- What happens when you move from command and control to self-management
- What qualities stay the same between traditional and self-management
- Why the concept of management tax (via Gary Hamel) makes self-management highly cost efficient
- Three questions that test the health of your management practice
- Why self-management makes leaders fit
Doug Kirkpatrick is an executive coach, organizational change consultant, author and TEDx speaker. He engages with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute, the Center for Innovative Cultures, Great Work Cultures and other vibrant organizations and leaders to co-create the future of management. Doug also blogs for the Huffington Post and is part of the NuFocus Strategic Group. Twitter: @Redshifter3 redshift3.org.
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