http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/motivation-and-management/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/motivation-and-management/comment-page-1/#comment-140379 Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Would you quit? Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:45:51 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/motivation-and-management/#comment-140379 [...] I’m going to put aside my usual remarks about management, motivation and ultimately its value as a recruiting tool (if you trust and value your current employees, [...] [...] I’m going to put aside my usual remarks about management, motivation and ultimately its value as a recruiting tool (if you trust and value your current employees, [...]

]]> http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/motivation-and-management/comment-page-1/#comment-111678 Allen Adams Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:58:45 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/motivation-and-management/#comment-111678 I believe over the last 5-10 years, large corporations have become entrenched in an "Emperor Has No Clothes" mentality. Part of the reason is the overzealous rationale that shareholders deserve the best and that the customer is always right. Certainly, to stay in business, the shareholder and customer are important considerations. However, when a large corporation considers those two hard-to-pin-down entities extremely more important than their employees, it is not surprising that the employees would much prefer greener-grass. Companies that are able to provide greater weight to the employee-importance variable in their capitalistic-society equation will have reduced employee-perceived browning-grass on their side of the fence. I believe over the last 5-10 years, large corporations have become entrenched in an “Emperor Has No Clothes” mentality. Part of the reason is the overzealous rationale that shareholders deserve the best and that the customer is always right. Certainly, to stay in business, the shareholder and customer are important considerations. However, when a large corporation considers those two hard-to-pin-down entities extremely more important than their employees, it is not surprising that the employees would much prefer greener-grass. Companies that are able to provide greater weight to the employee-importance variable in their capitalistic-society equation will have reduced employee-perceived browning-grass on their side of the fence.

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