The ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues. President Obama has repeatedly lashed out at BP. He is looking for “some ass to kick.“ Not to be outdone on the PR stakes, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward has spent $50 million on advertising, telling the US how he will “make this right.” Given all […]
Do You Tell Your Staff How or Ask Them Why?
FAVI is a French company that casts components for customers like Fiat and VW, a very successful company. One of the reasons why they are successful is the attitude of their CEO Jean-Francois Zobrist. He has a simple categorisation of organisations. They are either “Comment” or “Pourquoi”. Comment (How) organisations tell their employees how to […]
Mr Motivator
We all know about the carrot and stick, but do they work? Embedded below is a fascinating talk by Dan Pink at the the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Apparently the solution is to work on your “transcendent purpose”. Well worth a ten minute ponder.
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