The Participation Age requires decisions to be made by those who carry them out, not in a vacuum, but in collaboration and community. Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace presents the Twelve Tools of Decision-making leading to remarkable and lasting business success for every organization that embraces them.
Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace (By Giving Everybody Their Brain Back), or RTW, is Chuck Blakeman’s third book. Why Employees Are Always a Bad Idea, his second book and a Top Ten business book of 2014, was the who, what, when, where and why of the Participation. RTW is the HOW; how to build a Participation Age company where people work remote very effectively, and where everybody participate in building a great organization, not for you, but with you, and where everybody shares in the rewards of doing so.
Chuck Blakeman’s book, “Re-Humanizing the Workplace” has been a revelation to me. I have worked all my life in hierarchical structures and matrix organisations and always felt them lacking. What Chuck does is provide a framework for business, Distributed Decision-making (DDM) that provides business with a structure and a methodology to give employees what they want, purpose, a feeling of belonging and an ability to contribute.
DDM, also gives business leaders a loyal, purpose driven workforce, that is motivated to contribute not as employees on a “hamster wheel” but as employees that love to work.
It’s important to point out that Chuck’s book is not some “fluffy” let’s sit around a campfire cross legged and chant, call to action. It’s a structure and a practical framework, with case studies that will allow you to implement your own DDM organisation. In fact, I plan to do this within my own organisation.