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.
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. 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
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, and others.
* Isaac Getz & Alan Robinson, ''Vos idées changent tout !
our 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.'', New York,
Crown Business/
Random House
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, 2009, 304 p. () (revised and expanded edition, Argo Navis/
Perseus Books
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In 2005, Perseus acquired ...
, 2016), 400 p. ()
* ''La liberté, ça marche !
reedom works!', Paris,
Flammarion, 2016, () (expanded edition, 2020), 374 p. (); texts by
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,
Robert Greenleaf,
Max De Pree,
Bill Gore, Bob Koski,
Robert Townsend, Bob Davids,
John Wooden
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,
Robert McDermott,
Ricardo Semler
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, and others.
* ''L'entreprise libérée
iberated company', Paris,
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayar ...
, 2017, () (expanded edition, 2019), 482p. ()
* Robert Davids,
Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz, ''Leadership Without Ego'', London,
Palgrave MacMillan
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, 2019, 191 p. (); editions in French and Spanish.
* Isaac Getz & Laurent Marbacher, ''L'entreprise altruiste''
''
he altruistic enterprise', Paris,
Albin Michel Albin may refer to:
Places
* Albin, Wyoming, US
* Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US
* Albin, Virginia, US
People
* Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin"
* Albin (surname)
;Mononyms
* Albin of ...
, 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
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, Vol 51, N°4, pp. 32–58, o
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 , o
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'', Wargrave, UK: Brightline/Thinkers50, pp. 74–78 (), o
brightline.org Retrieved 28 August 2020.
* Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher (Autumn 2020),
A lesson in creating successful companies that care',
Strategy+Business
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, 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".
* 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.
* Thinkers50 have shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award.
Marconi Institute for Creativity part of th
gave Isaac Getz the 2020 Marconi Creativity Award for "his groundbreaking work on creative organizational approaches based on freedom and altruism."
Notes and references
External links
Isaac Getz official website
Isaac Getz presentationon the site of
ESCP Business School
blogrelated to the book Freedom, Inc. and to corporate liberation movement
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French writers