Isaac Getz is a Professor at ESCP Business School and author of books and articles. He has been instrumental for the corporate liberation movement involving hundreds of companies and institutions.
Biography
In 2009, he co-published the book Freedom, Inc. with Brian M. Carney, which introduced the concept of “freedom-based company” or “liberated company”. Based on the field study of several dozen companies, such as W. L. Gore, USAA, Harley Davidson, Sun Hydraulics, Richards Group, IDEO, Chaparral Steel, FAVI, and SOL, it described the role of corporate—liberating—leaders to build organizational environment based on freedom and responsibility. The revised and expanded edition has been published in 2016. Book’s editions have also appeared in Sweden, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, India, Israel, China, Romania, Italy, Spain, and South Korea and is forthcoming in Japan. In 2019, he co-published the book L'entreprise altruiste with Laurent Marbacher, which introduced the concept of the “altruistic corporation”.
Publications
Isaac Getz & Alan Robinson, Vos idées changent tout ! , Paris, Éd. d'Organisation, 2003, 209 p. ; editions in German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.
Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz, Freedom, Inc., New York, Crown Business/Random House, 2009, revised and expanded edition, 2016, 400 p.
La liberté, ça marche ! , Paris, Flammarion, 2016, 374 p.
L'entreprise libérée , Paris, Fayard, 2017, 482p.
Robert Davids, Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz, Leadership Without Ego, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, 191 p. ; editions in French and Spanish.
Isaac Getz & Laurent Marbacher, L'entreprise altruiste , Paris, Albin Michel, 2019, 528 p. ; forthcoming edition in Chinese.
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Awards and distinctions
The article "Liberating Leadership: How the initiative-freeing radical organizational form has been successfully adopted", California Management Review received the Academic Award from SYNTEC Management Consulting in 2010 for the best article of a French researcher in the category “Management / Human Resources / Organization".
The 2016 study by FNEGE of 1600 French managers ranked Isaac Getz as the fourth most influential living author in the world, in the field of management.
Thinkers50 have shortlisted Isaac’s work on corporate liberation and on the altruistic corporation for its 2019 Breakthrough Idea Award.
