I attended The WorldBlu Conference + Awards 2010 in Las Vegas this past week and had the opportunity to deliver the presentation below. The conference brings together this year’s WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces awardees to share their powerful ideas, best practices, tips and strategies with business leaders from around the world. Since 2007, WorldBlu has been identifying the leading “blu” companies that operate using the principles of openness and transparency, collaboration, and a power-to-the-people ethic to build highly innovative, democratic, and profitable organizations worldwide. We’re proud to be on the list for the second year straight!

Learning Workplaces

Learning workplaces are highly motivational. In order to learn you need fast feedback loops. My talk focused on 4 key ideas about learning workplaces:

1. Democratic workplaces must be learning workplaces
2. Learning organizations are inherently lean
3. Traditional performance reviews don’t help us motivate or learn
4. A better way to learn @work

Introducing The Agile People Manifesto

We also took this as an opportunity to launch the Agile People Manifesto, a project to define the key principles behind the agile management movement. We are the facilitators and hosts of the conversation, but we need your voice to make it successful. Join the conversation and help create the manifesto!