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A radical idea: putting employee happiness above all else
October 27, 2016In our previous post, we wrote that from its very first days, Southwest Airlines espoused revolutionary ways of organizing work....
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Corporate culture is like a flower or a garden
October 15, 2015Last week, I found myself back in Grenoble to speak at an offsite meeting of Soitec, a world leader...
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Powerful stories about ‘putting people first’
June 4, 2015“We put our people first.” These days, such declarations have become somewhat banal, simply because they are so pervasive....
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Jack Welch and “the people game”
May 28, 2015I referred last time to an assertion of one of my business school professors, back in 1983, that we...
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The Age of Industry and its management legacy
April 10, 2012Last time, I presented studies and statistics showing that an astonishing number of people are simply not happy with...
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Leading by autobiography
December 24, 2009While leaders may have varying styles, traits and behaviors, one pattern that I discovered relates to a concept I...