The ideas of “pay-for-performance”, and it’s twin sister “management by objectives” exist to try and increase the performance of a group and ultimately the whole company. The basic idea is: promise them a carrot and they’ll work more / better. But is that true? Can a company really perform better by promising people they will …
Last year I was involved in the organization of a unique conference. LESS2010 was a unique conference because it brought together different communities. We wanted to make sure that people with different points of view would discuss those points of view. The aim was to create a space for sharing ideas from different communities in …
This week we had a couple of world-class trainers and speakers at our company, and boy did we learn! Dyson, the guy who re-invented the vacuum cleaner said that failure is the essential part of innovation and learning. In his company’s site he states that “15 years (…) and 5000 failed experiments” were required for …
