https://completemarkets.com/company/CompleteMarkets/Articles/content-package/IMMS-Library/TabCategory/article-post/2182/Let-Go-Of-Control-To-Release-Employee-Power/
... . Taking advantage of automation, we told employees exactly what to do and punished them when they failed to do it. In essence, we treated people like machines. Control simply doesn't work as a motivator today. For instance, try taking that approach with a software programmer! With the advent of total quality management and learning organizations, even rank-and-file workers are being converted into knowledge workers-and knowledge can't be controlled. It can only be enhanced, unleashed, and managed. As I explain in my workshops, much legal and management ... has developed around yesterday's concepts of control. We define people as employees or independent contractors, depending largely on how much control we exert over them. We define employees as either exempt or non-exempt, depending largely on how much control we can place over them or they can place over others. We determine if someone is a common-law employee for benefits purposes, depending on the amount of control placed on them. But this control paradigm is rapidly becoming pass acute. Recently, a software company client of mine asked, How can we ... putting all this money into training people, only to watch them leave for a higher salary someplace else? ' I told her that we can't pretend that we can control these workers. We can't. Once trained, many employees jump at the opportunity to go off into business for themselves because of the greater potential for job satisfaction, flexibility, and income. Rather than thinking in terms of trying to control their continued employment, she should seek to make them partners with her company. Allow them the benefits of independence, but ...
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... try taking that approach with a software programmer! With the advent of total...y becoming pass acute.
Recently, a software company client of mine asked, 'Ho...
https://completemarkets.com/company/CompleteMarkets/Articles/content-package/IMMS-Library/TabCategory/article-post/2272/Effective-Goal-Reaching/
... CONCISE PLAN "A man without a plan is not a man," says a gangster in the movie Dick Tracy. Your mind is like a computer. You have enough experience with automation to know that a computer is only as good as its programmer. Bad software, bad results. How can you expect your computer to give you outstanding results if you haven't done an outstanding job of programming it? A plan is your program. ANTICIPATE PROBLEMS Now that you've programmed your bio-computer with clarity and precision, something will probably change ... , you certainly don't rely on the hope that it will somehow materialize. You wouldn't just buy wood and fixtures and hope they'd all fit together. The key to attaining complex or elusive goals is to come up with a concrete strategy. KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL GOAL REACHING Develop a clear, concise plan. Take time to anticipate any obstacles that might stop you from reaching your goal. List potential problems and the actions you'll need to take to overcome them. Check to see if you have "mixed feelings" about your goal. ... A CLEAR, CONCISE PLAN "A man without a plan is not a man," says a gangster in the movie Dick Tracy. Your mind is like a computer. You have enough experience with automation to know that a computer is only as good as its programmer. Bad software, bad results. How can you expect your computer to give you outstanding results if you haven't done an outstanding job of programming it? A plan is your program. ANTICIPATE PROBLEMS Now that you've programmed your bio-computer with clarity and precision, something ...
https://completemarkets.com/Article/article-post/2277/Producer-Success-Lesson-1/
... as good as its programmer - bad software, bad results. How can you expect you...