Found on the intranet (at work)
"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."
—Mary Ann Allison (American Business Author)
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Interesting. I bet I know somewhere that would value from doing that statement.
Yea, and how many businesses actually FOLLOW that model? Almost none...no matter how often it's proved to be true. And do you know who's fault it is? Middle management. You can blame everything on Middle management
J/k
That is an awesome quote and because the company I work for does not follow that idea (who does?) I will be leaving the corporate world within a month.
Could you please forward that to every manager in the world? ASAP?
If only they would take it to heart.
Hah! Makes sense to me, but apparently not to corporate America.
I have a mousepad from that place with something like this printed on it (one of those "raise morale" things they used to do_. I'll see if I can find it. Good for a laughs for us in the know
This is a model that should work regardless of what business you're in -
make sure that some group of individuals is tasked with finding ways of putting you out of business