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Management Foul-up Number One
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When companies make money, we assume they are well-managed. That perception is reinforced by the CEOs of those companies who are happy to tell you all the clever things they did to make it happen. The problem with relying on this source of information is that CEOs are highly skilled in a special form of lying called leadership. Leadership involves convincing employees and investors that the CEO has something called a vision, a type of optimistic hallucination that can come true only in an environment in which the CEO is massively overcompensated and the employees have learned to be less selfish.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575285000265955016.html
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Results-Only Work Environment

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Hennepin County, Minnesota, has taken the idea of a flexible work schedule to its logical extreme: the county is practicing what is called a results-only work environment, or ROWE, which gives everyone in a company the freedom to do their job when and where they want, as long as the work gets done.

This is clearly a good idea. After all, what could an employer possibly care about beyond results? And in Hennepin County, there is some initial evidence that ROWE has made things much more efficient. They used to have a two-week backlog of public support cases to process. Now that is down to five days.

A ROWE program would save employers money on everything from printing paper to electricity. If this seems risky, it is probably because employers think they need visual reassurance that people are actually doing work. Their real problem is, however, that they have failed to clearly define the "results" they care about.

http://www.good.is/post/minnesota-s-result-only-work-environment

Filed under: GTD Management Time Work
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