I read an article where the authors spoke of LEAN and its impacts on efficiency, increasing productivity and reducing inventory. He then showed how AI, accelerating content in various forms, will simply shift the bottleneck from production to consumption. When once the constraint was production time, resources and skill, it’s now capacity and capability to
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The goal of an organization SHOULDN’T be to become a learning organization, agile, or responsive. those are in process, they are reactions to change. The real goal should be to become an “unsurprisable” organization. An unsurprisable organization sees disruption before it hits and moves quickly to prepare… by learning and learning fast of course. And this
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There are still concerns by leadership that internal social networking tools are used exclusively or mostly for casual exchanges about pets, humor, and vacations – the frivolous. The cry is that it’s a waste of time. I’ve argued it’s not. These are actually healthy signs of relationships between people that can foster good working relationships or
At the end of each day, ask employees to simply share their answers to 3 questions where others can see. For example, if in a shared document or a wiki or even better, an enterprise-wide social tool – where people can easily respond in short-form text and others can peruse their response and comment/ ask questions.
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Dan Pink in his 2009 book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us stated that Motivation is a result of three elements. It’s when people have Autonomy, are gaining Mastery, and have a sense of Purpose. You don’t need clever HR initiatives, new CM systems, or fancy mission statement changes to keep employees motivated. What you need is
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