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Gerald Payton

Perfect Way to Boost Employees' Self-Esteem - 1 views

I have been working with David Ferrier for two months now and with his expertise, he was able to help me boost the confidence of my team. He was great because he actively motivated my staff to exce...

started by Gerald Payton on 15 Nov 12 no follow-up yet
Vahid Masrour

Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business... - 0 views

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    Give'm Mastery, Membership, or Meaning. Or all 3!
David Sydney

You Rock Dave! - 1 views

started by David Sydney on 04 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Vahid Masrour

The End of Management - WSJ.com - 2 views

  • They were an answer to the challenge of organizing thousands of people in different places and with different skills to perform large and complex tasks, like building automobiles or providing nationwide telephone service
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      Creating a formal organization was key at the time. Creating the formal organization is easier now, thanks to better means for coordinating action: you still need a network of committed people, but not the formality.
  • They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market
  • Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma
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  • They listened closely to their customers. They carefully studied market trends. They allocated capital to the innovations that promised the largest returns. And in the process, they missed disruptive innovations that opened up new customers and markets for lower-margin, blockbuster products.
  • the ability of human beings on different continents and with vastly different skills and interests to work together and coordinate complex tasks has taken quantum leaps.
  • We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new form of economic organization, and a new science of management, that can deal with the breakneck realities of 21st century change.
  • the even bigger challenge of creating structures that motivate and inspire workers
  • It will have to push power and decision-making down the organization as much as possible, rather than leave it concentrated at the top
  • Traditional bureaucratic structures will have to be replaced with something more like ad-hoc teams of peers, who come together to tackle individual projects, and then disband
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