The Productivity Paradox: Why Business has a Role to Play in Reshaping the Global Economy
Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more
Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more
“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” That quote from Simon Sinek caught my attention this week. It seems so … Read more
Where do you fit on the chart below? Naturally the answer depends on what aspect of your life you are measuring. So let’s give it … Read more
I see a day when all people of all nations will rise up and live their life to their fullest potential. I see a time … Read more
My apologies to my devoted fans (you know who you are LOL) for being late with this week’s blog. I hope you will forgive me … Read more
Stop waging war and start focussing your efforts on the core issue; developing your people so they have the skills you need and the environment in which they enjoy applying them.
You cannot continue to look upon your people as an expendable, easily replaceable cost. If you want your people to develop and “share their competence” you have to enable this. Treating and accounting for your employees as human capital is the vital first step. Are you ready to take it?
It started before the “Great Recession” but that period of economic history has seen it proliferate even more. Certainly reports suggest the trend of hiring … Read more
“’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more
At the end of the day employees are people and employee engagement is ultimately about nothing more than how best to deal with your people; by treating them as human beings. After all, as Conant clarified, they are what ultimately determine your success.