By Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz Published Dec. 9, 2009 8:51 p.m.
“From Genesis ‘in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’ to Marx’s ]the proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains,’ work has always been seen as a constraint and the workplace as a ship’s galley. But this is beginning to change, and it comes, we have discovered, not from workers but from their bosses. This is the most important corporate movement of the last two decades, a movement that has been quietly transforming the fortunes of dozens of businesses and the lives of thousands of employees by using a source of benefits neglected by most—complete freedom and responsibility for employees to take actions they, not their bosses, decide are best.”
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About Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz | Brian M. Carney is a London-based member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal and the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. In 2009, he won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary, and in 2003 he won the Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism for his writings on business and economic affairs. Isaac Getz, with Ph.D.s in Psychology and Management, is a professor at ESCP Europe Business School, Paris and has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. Isaac conducts and publishes research on innovation, leadership, and corporate transformation for excellence and growth, and speaks on these topics.
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