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Research seems to show that values-driven organizations can outperform their peers by wide margins.
Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
As teams and companies grow larger, the stakes in outcome decrease while the perks of rank increase. When the two cross, the system snaps. Incentives begin encouraging behavior no one wants.
Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan, who spent thirty years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy and now teaches a class called “The Strategic Management of Nonprofits” at the Stanford School of Business.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
— Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher, “The Dawn of the E-lance Economy,” Harvard Business Review
Tom Peters • The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
“I am sure that one of the reasons that I was attracted to consulting is that it is a helping profession,”
Stewart Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
I believe Lebow and Spitzer are right; consciously or unconsciously, all too often we use feedback to try to mold other people into how we believe they should be.
Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
In a classic paper, sociologist Murray Davis argued that when ideas survive, it’s not because they’re true—it’s because they’re interesting.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
WHY YOU SHOULD TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE