The WorldBlu Blog

Recently the Workplace Democracy Association, together with Zogby International, conducted a survey of nearly 2,500 workers to find that one in four, or 25 percent, believe they work in a dictatorship rather than in a democratic workplace.
The survey also revealed that, “Adopting democratic processes can have a significant impact on employee morale and thus […]

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I’m so pleased to share with you that today I have an opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper entitled, “Even big companies are embracing a democratic style.”
There is also a seven-minute audio interview that I did with the Monitor’s opinion page editor, Josh Burek. You can listen to the interview by clicking here.
The […]

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Axiom News, a WorldBlu List 2007 awardee and online media company based in Canada, just posted a story about WorldBlu entitled, “Concept of organizational democracy resonates worldwide.”
Read the story by clicking here.

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This past Friday I did a podcast interview with John Caddell on his “Shop Talk” program. John is the founder and principal of the Caddell Insight Group consultancy and is a recognized expert in telecommunications, outsourcing and enterprise software with over 20 years experience in high-tech product development, operations, and marketing.
During the 15 minute interview […]

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Today I have an opinion piece published in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper. It’s entitled, A Better World, One Office at at Time: Today’s Companies Need to Build a Democratic Workplace. It’s less of a here-are-the-bottom-line-benefits-of-workplace-democracy piece and more about the social dimensions of how building a democratic workplaces can help change the WORLD, an […]

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The Wall Street Journal has a feature article in today’s paper entitled, “Can a Company be Run as a Democracy?” about WorldBlu and select companies on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2007. Included in the article are Ternary Software, […]

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US News & World Report just posted an online piece about the WorldBlu List 2007 including the complete list of award winners. It’s entitled, “Rating the Best Workplace Democracies” and you can read it by clicking here.
There’s a lot of media coverage going on all over the world about the WorldBlu […]

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I’m so excited to share with you that today, Monday March 19, 2007, the international newspaper The Christian Science Monitor published a feature article about select organizations on the The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2007 as well as the entire list of all 34 organizations that received the award. The article is entitled, […]

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Last month I was invited to speak at YAHOO! in the San Francisco Bay Area about organizational democracy. Afterward, the managing editor of YAHOO! Hot Jobs asked if I would write a piece for them about how to bring democracy to an organization if you’re a […]

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