Clever company links creativity to no bosses

Danish company Clever is trying something it believes is clever indeed: it has done away with bosses to foster creativity and boost group performance.

- 

At its Copenhagen headquarters, Denmark’s leading operator of electric car charging stations has no hierarchical organisation structures.

Instead, the company has selfmanaged groups, where each employee is part of the decision-making process and in charge of following through.

Casper Kirketerp-Moller co-founded the company in 2012 with just a few employees.

Denmark and the other Nordic countries have long championed egalitarian social models and flat business hierarchies.

But Kirketerp-Moller wanted to take things a step further, thinking “we could do it better than the traditional way”.

“I was very much into how we humans are together, what [business] culture do we need,” he said.