Too many organizations are operating with a terminally creaky design for unleashing human potential, says Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Our newest MIX Maverick, Pink describes what's wrong with how we think about what makes people tick—and how to rethink what helps them soar.
Create the context in which people can learn through reflection from their own experiences and they will engage themselves, become passionate about their work and highly productive.were not only
Organisations in which employees are highly engaged experience significant benefits, many of which are beyond increased financial returns. Employees are more customer-focussed, more innovative,
In its new business groups, Applied Materials has changed the way decisions are made. Each week in the Solar Business Group, a technology roadmap/strategy meeting is held with all levels of empl
In a time when many businesses’ budgets were dwindling, Whirlpool University re-invented its learning methodology, yielding higher impacts to the business through skill acquisition. It began as
When Kraft Foods embarked on an important program to re-define its corporate purpose, vision and values, they decided not do it in a closed meeting room in Chicago but instead open up the process and
About two years ago, I read a book called The Future of Management by Gary Hamel at the recommendation of some friends. I couldn’t put it down, devouring Gary’s three case studies of companies ( Google , Whole Foods , and W.L. Gore ) pushing aside 100+ years of management wisdom and charting their...
