Pay the most you can afford. Minimising payroll is perhaps the dumbest thing a company can do. Don’t try to screw new employees down to the lowest they will accept. The pennies saved will cost you hundreds of times more in lost productivity. Think that engenders loyalty and passion? You should be welcoming them not defeating them.
Dont pay commission to individual sales people. Commission selling only constrains the sales process and induces competition within the company, including non-cooperation and withheld information.
A half hour video on How to Make Work Better, the organisational journey that we take our clients on, as seen from the apex exec’s perspective.
Here is all our consulting IP, out there for free. Help yourself.
And now, Open Leadership summarised, courtesy of Dr. Cherry Vu’s FB page….
In a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world, businesses and leaders are facing unprecedented challenges. Old management methods are no longer effective, and organizations are struggling to stay competitive, drive innovation, and ensure employee satisfaction. This is why Open Leadership has become a vital solution for organizations seeking sustainable growth.
The brilliant John Cutler wrote a parody of “Founder Mode” which, oddly, could be a useful way to articulate to macho-bro some of the right values of what we call an Open executive.
Practices and behaviour. It is important for executives and managers to understand which bit they contribute to more than the other.
As well as being one of the leading thought leaders in this space, Corporate Rebels put their money where their mouths are, by buying and improving other organisations. In October 2024, they announced the results of their first year with their first purchase, aerospace engineering company INDAERO, now a “bossless company”. The results are impressive.
A standup is a fifteen minute meeting typically held while standing up, not sitting, to keep it short.
We are in Bali and Lombok, still working. Cherry is running multiple workshops and meetings while we are here, and I’m still writing.
The bridge:
