Hidden Mojo

Here’s the paradox: companies are filled with good, normal, cool people. But very often they operate like slow, bureaucratic, unfriendly machines. Nobody enjoys working in that kind of an environment–and if your people do, you’ve hired the wrong folks! It’s possible to make your company more human, which makes it more fun […]

Bob Sutton has an excellent post about the value of well-designed systems. The weak link in organizations are often the systems, which incentivize counter-productive behaviors. This leads to behavior that is both unproductive for a company, and demotivating for employees.
And when 73% of employees are disengaged at work, it appears that there are a […]