Nora Young of the Spark radio show on CBC conducted an excellent interview with Gregory Berns, a researcher in brain science and innovation. Mr. Berns described a software company that accesses the knowledge, observations, and opinions of all its employees by soliciting their ideas for an Idea Stock Market. The set up seems pretty simple: employees post their ideas for company projects, and other employees pledge blocks of time to the projects that seem the most impactful or intriguing. The result is a culture of shared ownership in the company, and a severe lack of committees and useless meetings.
The take-away for a school seems pretty clear: instead of paying teachers to show up to mandatory meetings, pay them to get things done and make change.
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