Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.
No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
I am not interested in...making sure that you (the employee) are here, that you are giving us so many hours a day. We need people who will deliver a final result.
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.