14 April
2012
Here, in the Czech republic, we have been working on evangelizing freedom at work quite ferociously in the past year or so. Since our first kick-off conference there have been a series of monthly workshops in Prague named Setkavani ke svobode. People from freedom based companies from all over the Czech republic and Slovakia have [...]
19 September
2011
It has been just over twenty years after the communist dictatorships all over Central and Eastern Europe collapsed. Since then the society as a whole has achieved previously unprecedented levels of liberties. For some reason the liberation never really entered the corporate world. An average business today still runs on the same principles like the [...]
14 July
2011
We are all born into what I would call a “world of why”. Children aged 3-6 can ask this question reportedly up 400 times a day. If you’ve got them close by, listen to them. “Why?” is a great question! It may be the most important question in life. It enables one to plumb the [...]
Coming from the Czech republic, ex-authoritarian society, the concept of freedom is still misunderstood by many. It feels like back in 1989 we were released from a gigantic jail house. Living in a command and control society we had no need nor chance to learn the concept of responsibility and thus freedom. Twenty years later, [...]
It has been a while since I started speaking and writing about freedom at work back home in Central Europe. And doing that it would have been impossible not to bump into Traci Fenton of Worldblu whith whom we seem to share the passion. Last week I spent two great days listening to countless examples [...]
22 May
2011
God knows where it all started!? Perhaps Maverick! and Semco opened the door of freedom at work for me. Then a friend of mine sent me a link to a youtube video about some weird company that pays its people to leave. That was actually my first encounter with Zappos. I loved it! About a [...]
13 April
2011
I grew up under a left-wing dictatorship. I was just off the high school when the Berlin Wall fell and the the so-called Velvet revolution broke out. Good timing, one might think. I’ve chosen college already but still had plenty of room to decide what to do with my life. Luckily enough, instead of just [...]