When Jim Whitehurst set out to write his book The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance, he wasn’t looking to define the open-source movement in the same way that Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar defined open-source. Rather than define open-source as a development methodology, Whitehurst’s focus is on open-source principles as applied to the domain of company management.
In a video interview, Whitehurst details what the motivation for the book is about, and why there won’t be a new theory of management anytime soon.