What are the fundamental principles by which we run our organizations? When they grow up, what do we want them to be? I know for most of us, we start our careers as 20-somethings, spend the next two years figuring out how it all works – and before you know it, have been acculturated into accepting the way it all works now as “normal.”

Traci Fenton  is the founder and CEO of WorldBlu, a leadership and business design studio specializing in organization democracy and freedom-centered leadership. They’re best known for the annual list of the most democratic workplaces, but they also run WorldBlu Live, a conference around organizational democracy and host the WorldBlu Council for CEOs of democratic companies.  Traci’s been featured in all sorts of media as an expert in this field, so I felt lucky to speak to her on how to make Great Work flourish.

Amongst other topics, we kick around:

• Three key reasons why a democratic workplace is necessary to succeed and flourish
• The ten principles that lie behind “democracy”
• How Linden Labs – the creators of Second Life – approach being a democratic company
• The role of accountability in all of this
• And how’s she tackling her own Great Work Project of 20,000 democratic companies by 2020.

You can follow Traci on Twitter at @tracifenton

The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.

Listen to my interview with Traci Fenton

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