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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Google allows its employees to spend 20% of their time working on pet projects. These pet projects are things the employee sees that could benefit Google. This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. When employees step out of their comfort zone and try something new, magical things happen.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Gary Hamel, Consultant and Professor London Business School. ? Rasmus Hougaard, Managing Director, Potential Project. ? If you want to create a movement, you need two things: a sense of ownership and a sense of community. Ricardo Vargas, Executive Director, Brightline Initiativ e. ? Institutions change when we change.

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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. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? How much autonomy do frontline teams have to design their work, solve problems, and test new ideas?

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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. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? How much autonomy do frontline teams have to design their work, solve problems, and test new ideas?

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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. In general, how easy is it for an employee to launch a new project that requires a small team and a bit of seed funding? How much autonomy do frontline teams have to design their work, solve problems, and test new ideas?

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To Understand Strategy, Look At What People Are Doing

Six Disciplines

Here''s a profound observation from management guru, Gary Hamel: "If you want to understand the real strategy, look at what people are doing!”. Most organizations have 2 to 5 times as many projects and initiatives going on than they can possibly address. Why the gaps? Establish Vital Few Objectives (VFOs).

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When Smart and Fast Leaders Leave Their Teams Behind

The Practical Leader

In projects where I am not the leader or where timing isn’t insane this isn’t insurmountable. He’s articulated a very common challenge for many team and project leaders. The reason people like him were promoted or put in charge of teams or projects is because of technical skills, experience, and/or ability to get things done.

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