By Daniel H. Pink
Original Source: The RSA Animate: ‘DRIVE – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us’
Category Archives: Corporate Culture
The Focus of Leadership
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I first heard of the concept of Convex Leadership during a TEDTalk by R.A. Mashelkar, when he was speaking at TEDIndia in 2009. His talk discussed breakthrough designs for ultra low cost products being developed in India. Borrowing the concept, Gandhian engineering, from Tata Motors, his discussion expanded on the concept of frugality and challenging conventional wisdom in technological innovations, engineering and new product development. Getting more, from less, for more….. meaning Getting more service, from less resources, for more people. Amazing concept for the manufacturing and production world; especially for a world of depleting resources and a population that can’t afford luxurious overpriced designs.
Going back to the concept of convex leadership, the talk by Mashelkar brought up the idea of how leaders can transform the views and perceptions of those around them to focus and act as one; this type of leadership is needed to take advantage of concepts like Gandhian Engineering. Mashelkar further discusses how he came up with the concept:
Article source: http://www.robbiemadan.com/2012/01/04/the-art-of-leadership
The Colour of Success
Filed under Corporate Culture, Growth & Development
~The Colour of Success~
I think we can all agree that colour has an effect on humans as a whole. Certain colours can elicit emotions of Happiness, Sadness, Anger, and Lust/Love…..etc. Just think and I’m sure you can come up with at least 2 times colour had or continues to have an effect on your life.
But why does colour affect us so??? According to science, there are four psychological colours- red, blue, yellow and green. Each colour relates in some way to the body, the mind, the emotions and the essential balance between the three. Over all there are eleven basic colours:
RED~ Physical
Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, ‘fight or flight’, stimulation, masculinity, Excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.
BLUE~Intellectual
Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm. Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.
YELLOW~Emotional
Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide. Read More
Intranets are useless. Intranets are strategic. #SharePoint
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Filed under Corporate Culture, SharePoint, Usability
We have an Intranet?
I don’t visit the Intranet very often, it’s rarely updated. I just use email.
The Intranet doesn’t make my job more productive, so why bother?
I typically can’t find what I’m looking for on our Intranet.
I don’t know how to use the Intranet.
Our Intranet is useless.
Sound familiar? If not, congratulations, you’re one of the few who may have got it right. The primary purpose of Intranets can be summed up in 5 words: “A vehicle for sharing knowledge”
The 25 Smartest Things that Steve Jobs Said.
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Filed under Corporate Culture, Developing Teams, Growth & Development
I found Morgan Housel’s splendid blog post on the Web. I took the liberty of excerpting his content below.
This is a quoting of the late Steve Jobs and 25 of his most compelling philosophies.
25. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed saying we’ve done something wonderful … that matters to me.”
24. “I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list … That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And a man on a bicycle blew the condor away. That’s what a computer is to me: the computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
To be or not to be….Naked at work……
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There has always been major controversy about how businesses should conduct themselves amongst employees, clients, and the public. Society is constantly changing and manifesting what they consider to be acceptable business practices. And through these ever-changing opinions, we change our views on the types of companies we want to do business with. And one of the more forward thinking ideas is that a business strategy and structure should be transparent, or naked to the public.
Transparency by definition means capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material. So fine in texture that it can be seen through. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/transparent)
This nakedness/transparency when applied to business allows the public, clients and potential clients to get a very clear understanding of the business they are choosing to partner with, employ or engage. If a business is transparent studies have begun to show that it increases productivity and enhances the ethical workplace culture. One Study by Deloitte in October 2008 published: Read More
