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Organizational Development

Are You Measured By Results Produced Or The Time Spent In The Office

February 6, 2010

You are considered an expert in your field and you have recently changed your employer for a good package. To produce great output in your expertise area, you need to spend only a few hours a day – you don’t need to come at a fixed time and go at a fixed time but your [...]

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Open Secret Of The Marriage Between Vision and Action

February 5, 2010

In my decennium long experience journey, I have seen organizations which have a great vision – a vision to become a world class company which is super-positive. 100% win-win for all the entities involved, performance centric, employee and society friendly, ultimate customer delight centric… the best! But with very little actions. Little actions lead to [...]

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Absolute Productivity Killer – Thousand Strict Regulations And Low Trust

February 3, 2010

Better if software services organizations have only a few simple and strong regulations for their people. Regulations are substitutes for faith…faith in your people’s goodwill, faith in their competence and faith in their commitment. The more the organizations doubt their people, the more rules and regulations they impose. Some organizations treat their software engineers like [...]

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Poor Health Indicators Of Subverting Organizations

January 24, 2010

Domineering leadership: Leadership does not accept disagreements out of anxiety or haughtiness. “Yes mans” are climbing the wall of quick success here. High employee turnover ratio in senior management. Poor evaluation systems: Inefficient feedback and evaluation systems incapable of providing correct leadership and management performance evaluation data to the top management. Hidden agendas: Existence of [...]

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Are There Failures Or Just The Growth Opportunities?

January 5, 2010

It’s not so hard to beat your execution team for the failures they have caused. So many organizations live in the past rather than getting the best from the present and building a luminous future. Some organizations stuck for years over something they did or a failure they’ve experienced. Gloomy. A business is a terrible [...]