In a large company, there is a lot of power in cultivating an informal employee organization. But how do you cultivate that as a company leader? Any steps you take will de facto formalize it.

Here’s the idea: create an arbitrary digital currency that employees can use to trade in for company perks – free lunches, days off, better parking spots. They earn it by as a good performance bonus. On the one hand, you create a cool fringe benefit. On the other hand, you will create an informal market for employees to trade, hack and grow their CorpCoin empire. Without forcing it, you have created a powerful informal network.

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Another benefit of a digital CorpCoin is that you can track employee behavior. Not to punish, but to see who the real innovators in the company are.