Kenneth Clark asks this interesting question in his marvelous book, Civilization (Harper & Row, 1969) and supplies the answer: civilizations are not defeated. They generally are destroyed by boredom. A sense of exhaustion, a loss of confidence that problems can be solved, a feeling of hopelessness can overtake a people, even with a high degree of material prosperity.
That’s what I see in organizations today: the way they are organized and managed is terminally boring. Only one in five people is fully engaged in their job—the statistics vary slightly from country to country, but the bottom line is the same. Most people are bored. They often find themselves living in the world of Dilbert cartoons.
Yet there is another way. Some organizations have figured out a way to move
the firm to a new level of productivity and innovation, not just as a
short-term initiative, but on a permanent basis. They have discovered how to subvert
the world of Dilbert cartoons. They have found out how to get continuous innovation,
AND deep job satisfaction AND delighted customers, all at the same time. And they
are doing this sustainably, as the permanent way in which the organization runs.
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Posted by: Health News | March 16, 2011 at 03:08 AM