Amazon’s work practices, as detailed in the recent controversial NYT article generate interesting questions on Talent Management, Innovation and Culture. “Inside Amazon- Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” in the New York Times made unsettling claims about Amazon through interviews of 100 former and current employees. Jeff Bezos, founder (1994) and CEO of Amazon …
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Darwin is famously quoted as saying “It is not the biggest or strongest that survive but those most adaptable to change”. In biological terms its the idea that the organism that best adapts to the environment will survive best and therefore pass on their genes to the next generation. This ideology has been used in most …
Some of the public sector management stories remind me of a something I came across about the battle of Balaclava in 1854. Famous for the charge of the light brigade and “the thin red line” it became a logistical nightmare. While the British soldiers were up to their waists in water and cholera in summer clothes …
I have decided to coin a new phrase “Neanderthal Management” – I may not be the first to use it but I am going to use it from now on – a lot. Its a phrase which to me describes perfectly some of the things I see going on around me which is called “Management”. This …
Today is the 29th of February. And today provides me with an opportunity to review a certain perspective and attitute to employees and motivation by certain elements in this country. I have been working on or with employee motivation and performance for years now and I advocate there is a correlation between employee performance and workplace happiness based on correct employee …
