When will we learn?
When will we learn, or, as Bob Dylan put it, “When will we ever learn?” That is the question I found myself pondering after reading … Read more
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Empowering Employees & Performance through Employee Ownership
By offering employee ownership without equity the Zealise model provides a solution to all these limitations. It also offers an integrated participatory management approach that will ensure ownership in more than name and create the empowerment so essential to its ultimate success.
How Management is Lobotomising Leadership
The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.
Management, Manipulation and Employee Engagement
If you are striving to be a better manager – which, as a self-respecting manager you undoubtedly are – you may find it helpful (even … Read more
Employees as assets
It is ironic – and not a little frustrating! How often have you heard a colleague or senior executive say, “Our people are our greatest … Read more
Maximising Employee Engagement through Employee Ownership
You may think the link between employee ownership and employee engagement was well established. Yet, if you judge by the ongoing research into the subject, … Read more