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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. They all give up. The new monkey gives up after repeated attempts. They’ve been trained not to try anything outside of the norm. They’ve been trained to not try. They’ve been trained to not try. These presuppositions.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobson

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. How many layers are there from frontline employees up to your CEO/top position? Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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Humanocracy

Eric Jacobson

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. How many layers are there from frontline employees up to your CEO/top position? Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobson

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. How many layers are there from frontline employees up to your CEO/top position? Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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How to Reward Your Stellar Team

Harvard Business Review

Following the advice of David Collis and Michael Rukstad in " Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? " the group worked together to come up with a strategy statement of no more than 35 words. When Christopher Lind worked at a software company, he led a team of eight people who were responsible for training the company''s sales force.

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head

Harvard Business Review

A year earlier he had taken up his new post at Lakeland. By most of these metrics, the care compared well with others in the industry — but this wasn’t showing up in the overall satisfaction scores. Many were frequently readmitted when they failed to follow post-care instructions. .” ” he’d ask.

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Case Study: When Key Employees Clash

Harvard Business Review

Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets. He's not up to the job," Ellen said now. Eight years old, such a good kid, but he's struggling with school, and his aide seems like she wants to give up.