Work For Humans
Work For Humans
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Radical Respect: How to Say What You Mean Without Being a Jerk | Kim Scott, Revisited
In her first job out of college, Kim Scott thought managing Russian diamond cutters would be simple: pay them well and the rest follows. It wasn't. They wanted a picnic, and by the end of a bottle of vodka, she understood what they actually wan...
Pay for Performance: How Compensation Becomes a System of Control | James A. Seechurn
James Seechurn spent over a decade building compensation programs on a simple premise: design the incentive right, and you'll get the behavior you want. But his first clue that this was wrong came from watching it fail on him. As a young accoun...
Dangerously Incompetent: How AI and Robots Are Deskilling the Workforce | Matt Beane, Revisited
In robotic surgery, a device good enough to let the surgeon operate alone makes the resident, the future expert, optional. Matt Beane saw this pattern everywhere technology gets smart enough to make the apprentice unnecessary. Dart calls this o...
Employees Are Family: How John Chambers Played Hardball at Cisco Without Getting Ruthless
Under John Chambers, Cisco grew from $70 million to $47 billion, completed 180 acquisitions, and became the most valuable company in the world. He built the company on one idea: employees aren't employees, they're family. Then the dot-com crash...
7 Rules for Gaining Power and Influence at Work | Jeffrey Pfeffer, Revisited
Jeffrey Pfeffer has spent decades showing that people-first companies outperform, and just as long watching that evidence lose to habit. His answer is blunt: whether you're cautious about power or thirsty for it, there's no denying its role in ...
