Rehumanizing the Workplace (by Giving Everybody Their Brain Back) : The Twelve Tools of Distributed Decision-Making

The Participation Age is Here. Is Your Company Ready? The workplace is changing in ways we would have not imagined a year ago remote work is becoming normalized alongside the office. How do we lead both with the same high level of engagement and productivity? In Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace, acclaimed business speaker Chuck Blakeman presents the 12 Tools of Decision-making leading to remarkable and lasting business success for every organization that embraces them. Written for leaders, CEOs, business managers, and individual contributors, discover how to build a Participation Age company, where everybody participates in building a great organization, not for you, but with you, and where everybody shares in the rewards of doing so. Bold new ideas for a changing workplace:

• Imposed hierarchy is replaced with organic leadership and a network of teams inspired to take action.
• The Mission-Centered Organization - In a Participation Age company, everyone s first loyalty is to the Mission.
• Everyone is a Leader no exceptions!
• Community at Work Teams and workgroups organized around relationships get the task done better and faster. Team members stay longer, are happier, and are more engaged.
• Management must be eliminated, no exceptions Managers are good people in a hopelessly broken structure. When you add the twelve tools, managers become unnecessary.
• Distributed Decision-making (DDM) The core practice of the Participation Age company.
• DDM Teams are the new structure As a Deloitte survey showed, 92% of companies intuitively want to completely replace hierarchy with a network of teams released to take action.
Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace presents the DDM Toolkit with templates and easy to follow steps to implement each of the 12 tools and stories of DDM Teams and how to build them in your company. Companies with up to 75,000 team members are operating in the Participation Age with DDM Teams and no traditional management of people. You can, too. Buy a copy of Re-HUMAN-izing the Workplace and get started today!

CHUCK BLAKEMAN has built twelve businesses in eight industries on four continents. As an internationally acclaimed business speaker averaging more than 100 speaking engagements and workshops per year, he has been quoted and featured in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, NYTimes.com, Stephen Covey s last book, The 3rd Alternative, and other media throughout the U.S., South America, Africa, China, Australia, and New Zealand. His Colorado-based company, Crankset Group, works with founders and CEOs to help them build Participation Age companies and get back to the passion that brought them into business in the first place. Chuck's vision is to live well by doing good.