Learning… The real learning, happens when: You are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external rewards You ask more questions to get to the why of things — and then to what and how When you look for process and patterns in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to […]
Open Cultures: Do They Create Mistakes?
Open cultures A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the sound of silence. I claimed that in the best run workplaces bosses are open to discussions about problems. They have a “no blame culture“. Fact or theory? Is there any data to support my claim? Or was I just running my mouth off? — Heaven […]
Let’s Try It and See
Test and learn I love hanging around musicians. I love their energy and perspectives that are different from mine. That’s why I was hanging out in a music studio on a fine summer day a few years ago while a recording session was underway. The band had been going for an hour or so when […]
Do You Work for Super Chicken?
Performance management and chickens William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who studies chickens and productivity. Productivity is something that a lot of chicken farmers (and most of the rest of us) want. Productivity in chickens is easy to measure. You count the number of eggs the chickens produce — if only it was that easy in […]
The Sound of Silence
The worst thing a boss can hear is silence Silence from the shop floor. The sound of people who see things going wrong but then don’t speak up. People who don’t speak up because: They are scared of the repercussions They worry what people will say They don’t want to get labelled as being part of […]
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