The Bounty Effect

The Bounty Effect: 7 Steps to The Culture of Collaboration is a 2013 business book by strategist and speaker Evan Rosen, and the second book in his The Culture of Collaboration series. It was first published on June 3, 2013 through Red Ape Publishing and covers organizational structures. It was preceded by the 2007 book The Culture of Collaboration.
Synopsis
The premise of The Bounty Effect is that the structure of many organizations has barely changed since the Industrial Age and that obsolete organizational structures are rendering collaboration “dead on arrival.” Rosen demonstrates how remnants of command-and-control structures remain embedded in businesses, government agencies, and organizations of all types. These remnants include everything from organization charts and performance reviews to headquarters and the need to go through channels.

The Bounty Effect provides a framework for replacing obsolete Industrial Age organizational structures based on command-and-control with collaborative organizational structures designed for the Information Age. The book gets its name from the mutiny that occurred on the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789. Rosen uses the mutiny to illustrate how exigent circumstances compel companies, governments and organizations to change their structures from command-and-control to collaborative. This is what Rosen calls The Bounty Effect. The book includes such organizations as GlaxoSmithKline, Evernote, Patagonia, JetBlue, the Rockwell Group, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ford Motor Company, Boeing, the California Academy of Sciences, the United States Department of State, and the United States Intelligence Community.
Reception
The Library Journal and Publishers Weekly both gave The Bounty Effect positive reviews. The Washington Times praised the work for being "well written" and considered it to be a useful text.

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