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Firms need to give workers room to excel By Kaye Parker 9 JULY 2011 “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” That credo worked for...
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Warren Bennis on how leaders can be creative
Watch Bennis commenting on how to make one’s organization dancing Warren Bennis October 27, 2010 Here is a famous quote by Bennis: “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and...
Daniel Pink explains the science of self-motivation
The surprising truth about what motivates us by Daniel Pink & RSA We thought we posted already this video. Indeed, Dan Pink achieves here one of the best popularizations of the scientific work...
77% of business executives: organizational bureaucracy—biggest barrier to innovation
Bureaucracy barrier to innovation CITY A.M. 23 JUNE 2011 Three quarters of business executives think bureaucracy within organisations is the biggest barrier to innovation, according to a survey by London Business School. When...
The Self-Management Institute says freedom constitutes the lasting competitive advantage
Self-Management and the Holy Grail by Paul Green We like this Paul Green’s article he published in Morning Star Self-Management Institute’s Synaptein newsletter (Winter 2011). Here are few excerpts: Competitive advantage is generally...
More Google: How it was supposed to innovate
Google’s Eric Schmidt admits Facebook failure We are hearing alarming news from Google every day now. It’s former CEO has admitted that he “screwed up” by failing to treat Facebook as a serious...
Google and SAS: Are well treated employees happy?
Free organic food, massage, haircut, even concierge… and still leaving We are hearing alarming news from Google. There seems to be a mass exodus and googlers are dropping like flies. And when they...
Innovating for Freedom on an African island
Isaac’s interview for the NPCC Mauritius The NPCC Newsltter, Vol.9, N°1-2, 2010, p. 4 In the context of its tenth anniversary, the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council organized a lecture on the theme...
Autonomy, awareness, and freedom
Famous psychologist on how to free oneself by Eric Berne Eric Berne is known for his Transactional Analysis theory and quite a bleak view of humans spending their life to play “games”. Yet,...
Was Google a Freedom Inc?
What happened to Google’s management model We were always doubtful about Google’s claims to be a company based on freedom and responsibility of everyone. Because of this doubt we didn’t go to observe...