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Increase trust, reduce fear

“The most critical challenge for any organization is to enlarge the circle of trust.”

Command-and-control systems reflect a deep mistrust of employees’ commitment and competence. They also tend to overemphasize sanctions as a way of forcing compliance. That’s why so many organizations are filled with anxious employees who are hesitant to take the initiative or trust their own judgment. Organizational adaptability, innovation, and employee engagement can only thrive in a high-trust, low-fear culture. In such an environment, information is widely shared, contentious opinions are freely expressed, and risk taking is encouraged. Fear paralyzes, mistrust demoralizes—they must be wrung out of our management systems.

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Increase trust, reduce fear

“The most critical challenge for any organization is to enlarge the circle of trust.”

Command-and-control systems reflect a deep mistrust of employees’ commitment and competence. They also tend to overemphasize sanctions as a way of forcing compliance. That’s why so many organizations are filled with anxious employees who are hesitant to take the initiative or trust their own judgment. Organizational adaptability, innovation, and employee engagement can only thrive in a high-trust, low-fear culture. In such an environment, information is widely shared, contentious opinions are freely expressed, and risk taking is encouraged. Fear paralyzes, mistrust demoralizes—they must be wrung out of our management systems.

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To reinvent management we have to do just that - reinvent management from its deepest foundations.
Hack by Theodore Taptiklis on July 2, 2010
The truth – you can’t handle the truth’ bellows the colonel in the aptly named film ‘A Few Good Men’.  But the sentiment isn’t restrict
Hack by Mark Young on December 22, 2010
To effectively train and nurture managers/leaders, companies have to get involved.
Hack by Anna Smith on September 4, 2010
Development of a transparent employment process that results in not only the best person for the position being appointed but also keeps that person by making the company accountable for all promises
Hack by Andre Basel on February 28, 2011
 staRHs is a very simple way for HR to drive purpose, autonomy and mastery into the enterprise. Every colleague can log onto their staRHs account and distribute stars to any colleague who th
Hack by Heiko Fischer on November 18, 2013
Co-Authored By Angela Maus
The Secret  waits for the insight of eyes unclouded by longing, Those that are bound by desire see only the outward container.
Hack by Rohit Kashyap on September 17, 2010
In the past 10+ years I have not met a single organisation that does not work with external 3rd parties in some form e.g. cloud service, channel distribution, product dev, legal etc.
Hack by Ian Stobie on April 30, 2012
To bring about a person’s full capacity is true motivation.  In order to accomplish such a goal an incentive program in which personalized incentives are executed for each employee will result in
Hack by Devin Stewart on March 15, 2011

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