A Radical Enterprise

Chapter 6

Imperative #4: Candid Vulnerability

In previous chapters, we’ve seen how the developers at TIM Group drew inspiration from a number of radically collaborative pioneers, like the Johnsonville Sausage factory, the GE jet-engine factory, and the innovation organization W. L. Gore. Although the stories and practices from these organizations catalyzed the transformation at TIM Group, the developers there soon realized that there was a missing piece to their radically collaborative puzzle. Even though they had scrapped their dominator hierarchies, they still found themselves mired in dominator behaviors.

Meetings, for example, too often became scenes of conflict rather than collaboration—in which individuals spent more time defending their ...