Innovation at Work Level 1 – A Friday Fascinating
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 12, 2008
My post, Innovation Snobbery Is Not Serving Organizations, which started as?my response to Harvard Business online’s question, What’s Management’s Role in Innovation?,?is one of my most visited posts. Biased Expectations = Limited Potential My contention is that all work is creative and all humans are wired to work.? All levels of the organization are accountable […]
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Requisite Organization Introduction Public Course – January 7, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 1, 2008
For those of you interested in learning the fundamental elements of Requisite Organization, we’re having another public course.? Love to see you there! Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. On January 7th, I’ll be co-leading a short course on some of the basics of […]
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Requisite Organization Resources – Talent Management, Accountability, and More
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 10, 2008
For those of you interested in Requisite Organization,?Don and Bonnie Fowke, management consultants from the New Management Network, are hosting a weekly internet radio show exploring various management topics and methodologies. Below are summaries of their last two shows.? You can access them here. Talent Management Don Fowke of Toronto explores how a talent management […]
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The Employee Contract – Are We Buying Outputs or Renting Capability?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 4, 2008
Expanding upon my last post on managerial accountability … when you hire an employee, my friend and colleague Herb Koplowitz says, “You are renting employee capability not buying outputs.” Herb helped write the FAQ section for the Global Organization Design Society which has just redesigned its website.? Check it out here.? It has a large,?free […]
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Best Intentions Don’t Equal Best Practices – Ask the Bigger Questions of Your Systems
By Michelle Malay Carter on October 20, 2008
I believe in people.? Their inherent goodness.? Their desire to contribute.? To do well by themselves and others.? But clearly, this does not always translate into best practices.? Sometimes to do right by ourselves, our systems force us to do wrong by others. Whoa!? Where Did?We Go? Many times we start out doing something for […]
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Talent Management – What HR Should Have Done
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 23, 2008
In last week’s post, Performance Evaluations, Rating Scales and Fraud, I discussed a manager who had a performance review returned to him from HR. He was told by HR to lower the ratings he gave his stellar employee because, “You can?t rate every line item a 5 out of 5”.? In other words, he was […]
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Most Viewed, My Favorites – Mission Minded Management Turns One
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 22, 2008
Mission Minded Management turns one today.?? Thank you for your readership, your support, comments, and link love! I thought I’d do a mini year in review with links to my top five viewed posts and some of my personal favorites. Most Viewed Posts I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money – Why You Should Deliver […]
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Performance Evaluations, Rating Scales, and Fraud
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 15, 2008
Here is yet another real-life example of how performance evaluations can be a sham and?often do more harm than good. The Background My overqualified friend began a new job as a paralegal within a corporate law department several months ago.? Her manager was new to the corporate law environment as well, having come from a […]
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Systematically Disabling 83% of Employees
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 10, 2008
The Good News Humans are ready, willing, and able to work.? It is a psychological imperative for humans.?? By work I mean, the exercising of judgment and discretion in solving problems and reaching goals.?? Because all work involves judgment and discretion, all work is creative. We are not all identically interested nor capable of equal […]
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Boundaries are Liberating – Micromanagement is Not
By Michelle Malay Carter on August 27, 2008
In my last post, we discussed the requisite components of an effective task assignment.? Anyone who has lived under the opression of micromanagment might look at the?level of detail in?the task assignment format I shared and conclude that it would squelch creativity rather than facilitate it. Waste not Want Not When ambiguous assignments are given, […]
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