I’ve been reading Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink. I’ll post more about the book but here are a few links about the Results Only Work Environment that Pink discusses as the future of work. Not everyone loves it…
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Is ROWE The Future Of Work? Or An Unworkable Fantasy?
““Employees aren’t kids off playing hookey, doing as they please. They are adults you trust to do a job right.””
Bingo: it’s all about trusting your employees.
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The End of “Results Only” at Best Buy Is Bad News – Monique Valcour – Harvard Business Review
“Why on earth, then, would Joly cut this program? What killed ROWE at Best Buy was the same phenomenon that occurs frequently when a cost-cutting leader is appointed to turn around a struggling company: a short-term “get tough” mindset that favors rapid shocks over the slower, more difficult — but ultimately much more powerful — work of developing and communicating a strategy and harnessing the talent and creativity of committed, engaged employees to implement it. While Al Dunlap-style management can boost stock price in the short term, it lays waste to human capital value — the very resource that is most critical in firms like Best Buy, whose fortunes depend on providing excellent customer service.”
This is really Pink’s point throughout the book: the style of management and ideas about motivation he discusses are about long-term achievement rather than quick turn around.
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BEST BUY CEO: Here’s Why I Killed The ‘Results Only Work Environment’ – Business Insider
Best Buy was featured in Daniel Pink’s book Drive as an example of a company using ROWE