EPILOGUE
It’s a Journey
As CEO of a public company, I’m a practitioner, not an academic. I don’t pretend to have developed a new management system, though I hope I have described why a new one is needed. The only proof I can offer that the leadership culture we’ve built at Red Hat is effective and worth emulating—regardless of what kind of company you run—is our results. But I also admit that since Red Hat operates on the bleeding edge of this new and better way to lead, we cut ourselves quite often as well.
In short, we’re still on a journey to find newer and better ways to build on the lessons we’ve learned about what works, and what doesn’t, in building and leading participative communities.
The Boundaries of Participative Organizations
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