Tuesday, August 7, 2012

On People being our biggest asset

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/03/why_im_glad_i_got_fired.html

Reproducing my favourite lines :

"Lots of businesses run this way. Words like "productivity," "efficiency," and "innovation" are defined by goal posts of our own creation: number of units shipped, revenue and profit, EPS and shareholder return. But when you think of the world this way, you forget two things: first, people, and second, that the numbers themselves are not a product. Both are symptoms of a soulless approach to business: when who we are is dictated by strategy and metrics, what we make lacks humanity — in terms of both our products and services, and the cultures we cultivate "

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