About this episode
Our guest today studied Industrial Engineering & Management Science and Innovation Management at Eindhoven University of Technology. After a few years in a traditional corporate environment, he realized that the way most organizations worked simply didn’t make sense to him. In 2016, he quit his job together with Joost Minnaar. They created a bucket list of some of the world’s most progressive organizations and set out to visit and study them.
What started as a blog became Corporate Rebels, a global platform and movement dedicated to making work more meaningful, engaging, and human. Over the years, they have studied more than 200 organizations across six continents, including pioneers such as Buurtzorg, Haier, Morning Star, and Semco. Together with his partner he was named one of the Thinkers50 Top 30 Emergent Management Thinkers in 2018 and received the Thinkers50 Radar Award in 2019. He is also the co-author of Corporate Rebels: Make Work More Fun and Start-up Factory, their deep dive into Haier’s radical RenDanHeYi management model.
But today, he has taken the experiment one step further. With Krisos, he and his partners acquire traditional companies and transform them into self