Isaac Getz Explained

Isaac Getz is an author, conference speaker, and currently holds the post of Professor at ESCP Business School. He specializes in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership and organizational transformation and has been instrumental for the corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Biography

In 2009, he co-published the book Freedom, Inc. with Brian M. Carney, which introduced the concept of “freedom-based company” or “liberated company”. Based on the field study of several dozen companies, such as W. L. Gore, USAA, Harley Davidson, Sun Hydraulics, Richards Group, IDEO, Chaparral Steel, FAVI, and SOL, it described the role of corporate—liberating—leaders to build organizational environment based on freedom and responsibility.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]} The revised and expanded edition has been published in 2016. Book’s editions have also appeared in Sweden, Hungary, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, India, Israel, China, Romania, Italy, Spain, and South Korea and is forthcoming in Japan. In France, it has won the Best Business Strategy Book award in 2013. In 2019, he co-published the book L'entreprise altruiste with Laurent Marbacher, which introduced the concept of the “altruistic enterprise”.

Publications

• Isaac Getz (Ed.), Créativité organisationnelle, Paris, Vuibert, 2002, 160p. ; texts by Teresa Amabile, James Averill, Todd Lubart, Robert Sternberg, and others.
• Isaac Getz & Alan Robinson, Vos idées changent tout ! [Your ideas change everything], Paris, Éd. d'Organisation, 2003 (2nd edition, 2007), 209 p. ; editions in German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.
• Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz, Freedom, Inc.,^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} New York, Crown Business/Random House, 2009, 304 p. (revised and expanded edition, Argo Navis/Perseus Books, 2016), 400 p.
• La liberté, ça marche !^[14] [Freedom works!], Paris, Flammarion, 2016, (expanded edition, 2020), 374 p. ; texts by James MacGregor Burns, Robert Greenleaf, Max De Pree, Bill Gore, Bob Koski, Robert Townsend, Bob Davids, John Wooden, Robert McDermott, Ricardo Semler, and others.
• L'entreprise libérée [Liberated company],^[15] Paris, Fayard, 2017, (expanded edition, 2019), 482p.
• Robert Davids, Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz, Leadership Without Ego,^{[16] [17] [18]} London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, 191 p. ; editions in French and Spanish.
• Isaac Getz & Laurent Marbacher, L'entreprise altruiste^{[19] [20] [21]} [The altruistic enterprise], Paris, Albin Michel, 2019, 528 p. ; edition in Chinese prefaced by Zhang Ruimin.
• Isaac Getz (Summer 2009), « Liberating Leadership: How the Initiative-Freeing Radical Organizational Form Has Been Successfully Adopted », California Management Review, Vol 51, N°4, pp. 32–58, on cmr.ucpress.edu (Retrieved May 10, 2017).
• Isaac Getz (March 2011), « 1960s’ Lessons Learned: Liberating Leadership and Transformational Scholarship», Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol 20, N°1, pp. 8–12, on promostudio.info (Retrieved January 2, 2018).
• Isaac Getz (2019), The transformation: How Michelin redefined the twenty-first century industrial corporation, in The Transformation Playbook: Insights, Wisdom and Best Practices to Make Transformation Reality,^[22] Wargrave, UK: Brightline/Thinkers50, pp. 74–78, on brightline.org. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
• Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher (Autumn 2020), A lesson in creating successful companies that care, Strategy+Business, Issue 100, pp 28–31. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

Awards and distinctions

• The article "Liberating Leadership: How the initiative-freeing radical organizational form has been successfully adopted", California Management Review received the Academic Award from SYNTEC Management Consulting in 2010 for the best article of a French researcher in the category “Management / Human Resources / Organization".^{[23] [24]}
• The 2016 study by FNEGE (French national foundation for management education) of 1600 French managers ranked Isaac Getz as the fourth most influential living author in the world, in the field of management.^{[25] [26]}
• Thinkers50 have shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award.^[27]
• Marconi Institute for Creativity, part of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi gave Isaac Getz the 2020 Marconi Creativity Award for "his groundbreaking work on creative organizational approaches based on freedom and altruism."^[28]

External links

• Isaac Getz official website
• Isaac Getz presentation on the site of ESCP Business School
• blog related to the book Freedom, Inc. and to corporate liberation movement

Notes and References

1. Web site: Isaac Getz, "Hierarchies are unnatural – it's time for a liberating revolution", in People Management. www2.cipd.co.uk. 20 April 2017. en.
2. News: Andrew Hill, "Power to the workers: Michelin's great experiment". Financial Times. 11 May 2017 . 12 May 2017.
3. Web site: Adam Gale, "Employee engagement: The French way", Management Today, January 24, 2017. www.managementtoday.co.uk. 17 May 2017.
4. News: Andrew Hill, "Why the future of ESG is at a crossroads". Financial Times. 7 September 2022. 12 February 2023.
5. Web site: How Labor Is Liberated. WSJ. 10 May 2017.
6. Web site: Schramm. Carl J.. Capitalist Liberation. Forbes. 10 May 2017. en. 19 October 2009.
7. Web site: Bill Gore's Formula for Failure. strategy+business. 10 May 2017.
8. Web site: Brian Carney & Isaac Getz, "Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most". https://web.archive.org/web/20180917143426/https://hbr.org/2018/09/give-your-team-the-freedom-to-do-the-work-they-think-matters-most. dead. 17 September 2018. Harvard Business Review online. 10 May 2020.
9. Web site: How Labor Is Liberated . Wall Street Journal . 28 August 2020.
10. Web site: Capitalist Liberation . Forbes . Carl J. Schramm . 28 August 2020.
11. News: Helpful Hints From the Printed Page . Paul B. Brown . The New York Times . 28 October 2009 . 29 August 2020.
12. Web site: Publisher's Picks: Top Books of 2009 . . David DesRosiers . 20 August 2020.
13. News: Freedom: the avenue to employee engagement Freer workers are better workers . The Globe and Mail . Harvey Schachter . 27 January 2010 . 25 August 2020.
14. Web site: 4 idées à retenir de " La liberté, ça marche ! " . . Régine Turmeau . 14 September 2016 . 2 September 2020.
15. Interview management . . Christophe Bys . 19 January 2018 . 1 September 2020.
16. Web site: Les 7 idées de... " Leadership sans ego " . . Régine Turmeau . 29 May 2019 . 1 September 2020.
17. Web site: Five Insightful Business Books To Read During Covid-19 . Forbes . Sally Percy . 1 September 2020.
18. Web site: Real leaders need to lose the ego . Management Today . Isaac Getz . 8 September 2020.
19. Comment lier entreprise et progrès social . . Margherita Nasi.
20. L'altruisme, stade suprême du capitalisme . . Bruno Jacquot.
21. Web site: Altruism can be good for business, as these companies show . . Isaac Getz . Laurent Marbacher . amp . 9 September 2020.
22. Web site: Brightline Publishes New Books to Support Leaders on Understanding and Delivering Transformation Initiatives . financialpost.com . 3 September 2020.
23. Web site: Remise des trophées de la deuxième édition du prix académique Syntec Conseil en management. LExpansion.com. 12 May 2017. fr. 1 May 2010.
24. Web site: Interview Isaac Getz - Freedom Incs. Youtube. 10 May 2017. 29 September 2010.
25. Web site: M. Kalika, S. Liarte, & J. Moscarola, " Enquête FNEGE sur l'impact de la recherche en management ". Fnege. 20 April 2017.
26. Web site: FNEGE study Top 50 Ranking. Iseor-formations. 20 April 2017.
27. Web site: BUSINESS GURUS SHORTLISTED FOR THINKERS50 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS. thinkers50.com. 20 May 2020.
28. Web site: MIC Conference 2020 programme. Marconi Institute for Creativity. 17 September 2020.