The Open Organization

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First of all, I want to thank the thousands of current and former Red Hatters who are responsible for building the thriving open source culture we have today. I wrote this book to describe the amazing management system that they, not I, have created at Red Hat. This book is a tribute to all of their hard work and risk taking in bucking the traditional rules of business and creating a new way to organize and get work done that I continue to learn and grow from every day.

I have also had the benefit of standing on the shoulders of giants. I have learned so much in following what Red Hat’s founders, Bob Young and Marc Ewing, put in motion. That’s also true of the leadership of Matthew Szulik, my predecessor, who drove the company ...