Do you do things out of a desire to do them?
Traditional businesses use the carrot and stick as a form of motivation. They offer you a reward to meet a certain target/challenge. This reward serves to narrow your focus and blunt your creativity.
A new way to motivate engages vision and involves autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Autonomy: the need to influence and drive our own lives.
Mastery: the ability to not respond to every impulse that arises while developing core capabilities.
Purpose: the desire to use skills & talents in the service of a greater means.
These are the building blocks for a new business operating system.
Autonomy:
The traditional form of management may be good for compliance but not for growth and development. If you want engagement and whole-hearted participation then self-empowerment works better.
For example, take Google. They have something called 20% time during which they can work on anything they want. They have complete autonomy over time, task, team and technique. Over half of the new products are born during 20% time such as Gmail and Google News.
If you get better results by introducing more autonomy, then it makes sense to use this as a key element of the new operating system. Not only will the business get better results but people will feel better about themselves and what they have to offer (skills & talents) the business. It therefore, encourages growth and development.
Traditional businesses use the carrot and stick as a form of motivation. They offer you a reward to meet a certain target/challenge. This reward serves to narrow your focus and blunt your creativity.
A new way to motivate engages vision and involves autonomy, mastery and purpose.
Autonomy: the need to influence and drive our own lives.
Mastery: the ability to not respond to every impulse that arises while developing core capabilities.
Purpose: the desire to use skills & talents in the service of a greater means.
These are the building blocks for a new business operating system.
Autonomy:
The traditional form of management may be good for compliance but not for growth and development. If you want engagement and whole-hearted participation then self-empowerment works better.
For example, take Google. They have something called 20% time during which they can work on anything they want. They have complete autonomy over time, task, team and technique. Over half of the new products are born during 20% time such as Gmail and Google News.
If you get better results by introducing more autonomy, then it makes sense to use this as a key element of the new operating system. Not only will the business get better results but people will feel better about themselves and what they have to offer (skills & talents) the business. It therefore, encourages growth and development.
Interesting! Would be cool to bring that into NWC, just need to make the time...
ReplyDeleteHi Kate, thanks for your comment! By NWC are you refering to a company..? I think it depends on how important you think this is for your company, ie where do your priorities lie. But would definitely recommend it as a functional part of any business operating system.
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