Some interesting thoughts on management.
From Knowledge at Wharton:
David Sirota, co-author of The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want (Wharton School Publishing), believes far too many managers stifle employee enthusiasm across the board by using bureaucratic or punitive techniques that should be reserved for a troublesome few.
I haven’t read the book, but this interview with K@W gives a pretty good summary. While much of what the authors say might seem obvious, even trivial – I would suspect that many managers and organisations do not apply these principles and fall into the obvious traps. Sometimes through incompetence or venality, but most often I suspect by accident. It’s actually easier (to fall into the trap of creating an adversarial working environment &/or treating employees like children) than one would like to think.
