All employers are in the extraction business, not just those in the ‘resources’ industry. The resource all employers mine is their people – specifically their ideas, energy and time – ‘just’ the most personal and precious of our resources which define us as human beings. Some workplaces have a culture where this mining is doneContinue reading “Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first”
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The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces
Three years on from writing “The Great Reset at Work“, readers will be saddened and shocked to learn the progress or fate of my connections that I mentioned therein, because my greatest concerns did not take long to manifest and in the most tragic ways. I fear that the threat to their psychological safety thatContinue reading “The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces”
Applying The Unity Bell For Cohesion and Productivity
In “The Unity Bell” I discussed how the forced grading of employees’ work performance into a normal distribution bell curve to reward and punish the few deemed by their managers at either end of the distribution is well known to demoralise the majority thereby worsening productivity instead of improving it. Moreover, I stated that aContinue reading “Applying The Unity Bell For Cohesion and Productivity”
Pernicious Envy
“The world is not driven by greed. It is driven by envy”. Charlie Munger, Feb 2022, aged 98, Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway, Chairman Daily Journal Company, Billionaire, Genius. The pandemic-time reflecting that I first foresaw in February and March 2020 and discussed here at MacroEdgo revolves a great deal around envy. Envy has become integralContinue reading “Pernicious Envy”
Families And Work
I am always up for a real talk – whether it be ‘gritty’ or ‘feel good’. And I think it is wonderful you shared your depth of emotion, Georgie Dent, in this post – I appreciated it greatly. I also wish to express gratitude for you working so hard to gain progress for families whichContinue reading “Families And Work”
If Quiet Quitting Results in Reduced Production – A Big ‘IF’ – Then It Was Production That Never Was Paid For
Since my comment on LinkedIn about David Westin’s sub-par coverage of Quiet Quitting on Bloomberg Television, I am pleased to observe that he has lifted the bar to his normal high standard. Even articles on Bloomberg’s website with titles ostensibly indicating opposition to the trend on deeper reading point at all of the reasons forContinue reading “If Quiet Quitting Results in Reduced Production – A Big ‘IF’ – Then It Was Production That Never Was Paid For”
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