Do you really need a Chief Happiness Officer?
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The end of sustainable competitive advantage
In this article we explain why a sustainable competitive advantage no longer exists, and why organizations are not prepared to deal with today’s complexity that caused this. Moreover, we will provide guidance to the changes you needed to react adequately to the challenges you face to stay relevant as a company.
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The danger of short term thinking
Short-term thinking dominates in management thinking. There is a serious danger of sensing changes too late if there is too much focus on the short term. This series of articles explores the danger of short-term thinking, covering several example patterns that could occur at your organization as well.
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Turn the ship around! David Marquet
Turn the ship around! is the amazing and inspiring true story of nuclear submarine commander David Marquet and his crew's journey to completely turn around the style of leadership on board of the Sante Fe. The change is from what he calls a leader-follower model to a leader-leader model.
Favi, a metal foundry putting employees first
Favi is a remarkable company: While most examples of companies with a human-first culture seem to be build from the ground up that way, are relatively recent, and come from a internet technology background, Favi was an old-school family owned brass foundry, founded in 1953, when Jean-Francois Zobrist took over as CEO in 1983. The way he became CEO was remarkable as well: the owner took Zobrist on a helicopter tour, landed near the plant, gathered the employees, and told them Zobrist was their new CEO, not in the last place to the surprise of Zobrist himself.
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Why do we focus on fixing employee weaknesses instead of amplifying their strengths?
The traditional approach to workplace development prioritizes “fixing what’s broken.”...
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The danger of short term thinking
Short-term thinking dominates in management thinking. There is a serious danger of sensing changes too late if there is too much focus on the short term. This series of articles explores the danger of short-term thinking, covering several example patterns that could occur at your organization as well.
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part II
Most empowerment programs aren’t empowerment at all if a manager gives up some authority only he can give. So let’s start the other way around: Reverse delegation assumes an employees can take any decision except for what he doesn’t feel like and what has been set as constraints. So how do we do this?
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Turn the ship around! David Marquet
Turn the ship around! is the amazing and inspiring true story of nuclear submarine commander David Marquet and his crew’s journey to completely turn around the style of leadership on board of the Sante Fe. The change is from what he calls a leader-follower model to a leader-leader model.
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Do you really need a Chief Happiness Officer?
A quick search on LinkedIn on ‘chief happiness’ led to over 16.000 results. It seems...
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Employee engagement in The Netherlands is one of the lowest in the world!
We shared some overall numbers on employee engagement already in part I and II of this series. But Gallup’s study was much more detailed. For example, I was surprised to find that engagement in The Netherlands was actually one of the lowest in Europe. My liberal happy little country? What gives?
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