Honoring democratically run organizations

Do you know a company that operates democratically? If so, nominate them for the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2008 award!

Any organization -- profit, non-profit, NGO, small, midsize, or large can apply for the honor. Each applying organization must submit a survey to its employees. Then, each is given a rating score that determines whether they make the 2008 list. Such a list helps to honor the organization and to show other organizations the incredible positive value of transforming their organizations out of the negative command and control style into the collaborative democratic style.

Traci Fenton, whom I call an internationally active “trimtabber” for democratic workplaces, founded WORLDBLU as a leadership and business design studio dedicated to helping build “a more democratic world one organization at a time.” (See Fenton’s recent article on this at www.csmonitor.com/2007/1019/p09s01-coop.html) Having herself experience the toxic workplace environment of command and control management at a Fortune 500 company where she was employed, Traci quickly immersed herself in understanding organization management, researching organizations in which everyone matters. From this grew her WORLDBLU company and now the WORLBLU List of Most Democratic Workplaces.

To learn more about how to apply, see which organizations made the 2007 list, and watch a video by Traci Fenton, go to http://www.worldblu.com/scorecard. Organizations have until Dec. 31, 2007 to apply as a nominee.

Because I see democratic management as the key way for making our schools work for everyone (which is my mission), I include a section on WOLRDBLU in the final chapter of my free study Crisis in School Management.