Good morning.
I’ve interviewed hundreds of CEOs but have never had to take a webinar as a prerequisite. Until Friday. Bayer CEO Bill Anderson’s team insisted I watch an hour-long presentation, hosted by Anderson, on Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) before talking with him. Never heard of DSO? That’s because Anderson invented it. It’s a radical remake of the corporation based on the ideas of consultant Gary Hamel (read my review of Hamel’s book Humanocracy here) designed to slash bureaucracy, decimate management, eliminate hierarchies, shred rule books, and replace those with a thriving ecosystem of micro-businesses run by intrapreneurs in service of customers. Anderson cites Haier as an example of a company that has implemented these ideas successfully.
