Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines
...Lisa Gill: Yeah, I really like that. And it's so simple, and it takes such a weight off. In a traditional company, you'd have some person in HR, I guess, trying to administrate that, spending hours trying to find the policy, and then getting all these complaints and requests and stuff. And if...more
...this principle of trust, then it's so much easier for everyone. Jorge Silva: Yeah, well, actually, we don't have support staff members. We don't have HR people, we don't have financial people, we don't have salespeople. We do that by ourselves. And I think it's one of the great decisions that we made ...more
... it's one of the great decisions that we made in the beginning. Because everyone understands, and everyone has the responsibility to take care of the human resources. And I think if you're going to work in a company, you have to take care of that - you can make decisions without taking in several aspects of the de...more
Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii
...y looked at all of these high performing cultures and said, "What did they have in common?" And what they found was that amongst all of these various HR practices, whether it's having a compensation system performance management, that the biggest difference or the biggest driver of a high-performing c...more
... Marketing at quite a large technology company in Canada and people used to joke with me that, "instead of being a marketing, you should really be in HR - you spend all your time on all this HR stuff." And so I had read Jim Collins' 'Good to Great' and his books and I was all about trying to understa...more
...pany in Canada and people used to joke with me that, "instead of being a marketing, you should really be in HR - you spend all your time on all this HR stuff." And so I had read Jim Collins' 'Good to Great' and his books and I was all about trying to understand: what's the purpose of our organisation...more
Nand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-management
...s respect for, as you say, this idea that the frontline is king? NK Chaudhary: To begin with in 2017, I had an intuition and called my staff from the HR department. I told them that from today, we are going to change the name of our HR department. We renamed it to 'Search for the divine soul'. We deci...more
...egin with in 2017, I had an intuition and called my staff from the HR department. I told them that from today, we are going to change the name of our HR department. We renamed it to 'Search for the divine soul'. We decided that we shall only hire people who are highly sensible and purpose-driven. Peop...more
Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good
...There are not enough employees who think and act like owners. There are legions of people in organisations who basically run internal monopolies, and HR and Finance and IT aren't really accountable to end users. So very few CEOs argue against the data or the need for change. I think what holds them b...more
...ations is an Australian company that develops web based tools for large company that's called Atlassian. They look at every single process, they have HR and finance - and every single process is forever in beta. And they're just constantly evolving. And other's - they're evolving their management mode...more
Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation
...ng an entrepreneur. So it’s kind of a system that offers you several things. It offers you what they call this Shared Service Platform. So legal, IT, HR and so on. But it also offers you what the industry platforms do. So, an investment process that makes it easier to enterprise inside the organisatio...more