Terri Kelly speaks of Gore’s culture in MIT
Gore ‘s culture by its CEO DECEMBER 8, 2008 W. L. Gore & Associates is famous for its culture but it is a notoriously hard to get in company if you...
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An entrepreneur appreciating Freedom, Inc.
David finds Freedom, Inc. helpful to build his company the right way, from the start Over the last two weeks I’ve been thinking quite a bit about our values. What do we want...
Toyota won’t waste its crisis—unlike the others
Toyota Way and Win: “Good enough never is” + “Respect for people” Here’s what we think about Toyota’s latest crisis: They handled the PR crisis management badly, not being open enough fast enough...
How managing stifles initiative and prevents joy
Psychologists on the impossibility of management—even for NINA puzzles The University of Rochester psychologists Edward Deci, Richard Ryan, and their associates carried, perhaps, the most ambitious contemporary theoretical and empirical research on motivation....
Incentive plans: Addictive for people and ruinous for companies
Taleb and Whitney of why incentives are just another sick game A big bank announced its annual profits—not very big this year—with a whole third of those going as bonuses for traders. Traders...
The Fayetteville Observer on people
Your people are your greatest asset by Sid Gautam 9 FEBRUARY 2010 During the last 20 years we have seen time and again that the bigger the corporation is, the worse it performs....
McGregor and Whitney on “making the numbers”
The exciting game of “making the numbers.” In Freedom, Inc. we wrote: “Because you get what you measure, your measurement becomes the performance. And before long, rather than boosting your firm to ever-faster...
Deming on invisible costs and other figures
Running a company on visible figures alone We have written in Freedom, Inc. on the invisible costs of traditional companies and illustrated it through the costs of the workplace stress. Of course, there...
On Animals and Pets in the Workplace
Why animals and pets are welcome in the workplace (and we didn’t even know it) We have just “discovered” this amazing book written in 1993. Its author, John O. Whitney, spent most of...