Semco is a company that has been incredibly inspirational to me – I love it!  However, some people get the creepy-crawlies when they learn about it and how the executives let go of control:
“Semco has no official structure. It has no organizational chart. There’s no business plan or company strategy, no twoyear or [...]

The ends of the push v pull management motivation spectrum are:

There are some fundamental management values or operating principles that a CEO and managers can take to heart to move their culture away from push and closer to pull: Trust, Transparency and Alignment. The CEO must be the one to lead by example in creating [...]

Recently, James Surowiecki wrote here about Toyota and their consistent march to the top in the car industry.
There’s one paragraph that really stands out as important to absorb:
According to Matthew May, the author of a book about the company called “The Elegant Solution,” Toyota implements a million new ideas a year, and most of them [...]