Best Employee Engagements Posts for May 18th
Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh\'s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit
\”He offered an ultimatum: Embrace self-management by April 30, or we\’ll give you a three-month severance package to leave…Can Zappos thrive without a traditional hierarchy? Or will it self-destruct?\”
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Why Performance Management needs to be disrupted. Pronto.
\”Possibly the most soul-sucking activity at work is the prescribed employee performance process… The root of the issue here is little focus on the performance part and too much focus on the management part of performance management.\”
\”When people talk about what it takes to transform a field or a world, they leave out one crucial component…Too often, he said, the list of explanations is short. \’We talk about the importance of technology and knowledge and resources, having the kind of money to make it happen,\” he said, \”but we don\’t talk about frame of mind–attitude. The kinds of attitudes that lie behind provocateurs.\’\”
Do Companies Really Need Headquarters?
\”One of the cool things about our wired-up business world is that almost every function that a small company needs can be handled remotely or contracted out. Since that\’s so, why spend money on corporate headquarters?\” |
