Archive for April, 2009

Companies And Their Bureaucracies

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives awaythe right people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth.
Jim Collins, Good To [...]

On Motivation…

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Spending time and energy to “motivate” people is a waste of effort. The real question is not “How do we motivate people?” If you have the right people, they will be self-motivated.
The key is to not de-motivate them.
Jim Collins, Good To Great

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