Indulging employees is no substitute for engaging them

Indulging employees is no substitute for engaging them

  “Leaders will buy miserable employees latte machines for their offices, give them free lunch and sodas, or even worse — just let them all work at home, hailing an ‘enlightened’ policy of telecommuting. Hell, some of these practices might...
The True Cost of a Bad Boss and What to Do about It

The True Cost of a Bad Boss and What to Do about It

Bad managers’ plot ?   We wrote about the tremendous costs of stress to organizations. It’s also known that one of the key stressors for employees consists in conflictual relations with their manager. Below is a nice, less than 2 minutes video...
A Knowledge Management Blog on Corporate Liberation

A Knowledge Management Blog on Corporate Liberation

Liberate Your Company Through Employee Engagement By www.elsua.net   BLOG’S INTRO: This www.elsua.net post’s the author espouses the corporate liberation dear to us. He also makes a brief reference to our own work. It’s rewarding to see that...
Ridding of Rules — a small, useful step to freedom

Ridding of Rules — a small, useful step to freedom

Doing Away With Stupid Rules By LISA BODELL Wall Street Journal, Small Business, July 31, 2012 BLOG’S INTRO: The 1st step of your company’s liberation campaign is dismantling bureaucracy. And you do it to show respect for people intelligence. There is...
Someonewhogivesadamn.com on NOT working for Google

Someonewhogivesadamn.com on NOT working for Google

Why Recent Graduates Should NOT Work For Google Google is supposed to be the perfect place to start a career. Many recent surveys have pictured the search giant as the world’s most attractive employer, with famous perks as the twenty percent free-time being...
Deming, Total Quality, and the Fundamental Respect for People

Deming, Total Quality, and the Fundamental Respect for People

Edward Deming is known as the father of the quality movement. TQM became a fixeture of many industrial and non-industrial companies. Yet, according to studies two thirds of companies consider that TQM hasn’t met their expectations. Is it TQM’s or Dr....