People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.
The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.
If you are giving back, you took too much.
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.
No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
