Google “employee engagement” (I dare you) — several hundred thousand results will come back. Now try “business innovation” — nearly two million hits! Anyone seeking actionable suggestions about either has an awful lot to wade through. Now try: “employee engagement” “business innovation” — less than five thousand hits, many coincidental (both terms happen to appear [...]
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Aligned Employees (Alone) Don’t Lead to Success
As recently pointed out in Saj-nicole Joni’s recent HBR Now post (http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hbr-now/2009/09/lehmans-problem-too-much-align.html) “Management teams might take pride in a smoothly-run machine, only to end up blindsided when reality doesn’t mesh with their harmonious view of events.“ When a leader does not value alternative perspectives, and builds a culture which rewards employees who “fall into line,” even [...]