![]() ![]() Mind you, this is not the free slave labor I am talking about. how much are your team members willing to go over and above their written job description and the assigned work. One of the biggest lagging indicator and a very reliable safety indicator of #employeeengagement is the multiplication of factors such as (meaningful work) x (creative freedom) x (autonomy at work) x (psychological safety) x (.) and can be measured by a single outcome variable - discretionary effort, i.e. Who do you think is main culprit when that happens? That is precisely how we force people to #quietquitting from work. His manager read the riot act to him, and that really got him started! Unable to accept that his contributions were seen less valued than the useless need to show up on time, he quickly settled into the "work routine" - showing up at work precisely on time, leaving the office promptly on time, and never stretching beyond. However, as is often the case with many bright techies, he could never come to office at the appointed morning hour! Sadly, the company policies were archaic (and beyond even my rebellious influence!), and just like in an eighteenth-century sweatshop, it expected all its employees - including the knowledge workers - to also show up on time, or else face penalty (graciously pegged at half a day of leave). He would stretch his hours even without being asked for, and produce solid gold. In one of my teams many years back, I once had a bright engineer. And I think that is the most audacious hope. But this will make you think so that hopefully one day you might come up with ideas to change the world. ![]() One word of caution: some books are meant to generally entertain, and some are there to provide readymade answers and canned wisdom. And who better than Late Ken Robinson to guide us with his radical ideas? I totally enjoyed listening to the audiobook narration of his last book by his daughter Kate Robinson. Now that the industrial age is practically over, it is time to reset the way we teach our children, the way we design our future. In what might be the biggest irony, our education system was designed for the #industrialage when we needed a hierarchy of workers at each level to support mass production. Rest of the damage is completed at #workplaces that treat people as "human machines". We are taught conformance rather than creativity, we are expected to comply rather than question. I won't shy away to call it as a #superpower of the humans.Īnd yet, our #education system makes such a horrible mess of our budding capabilities. And just like a good seed needs the right soil and nutrition, we too need just the right environment to give wings to this power of imagination and build the future. Everything we've ever made once started its journey in someone's mind as an imagination - a challenge to the status quo, questioning the established mental models, a departure from the social norms, swimming upstream against the establish business models.literally anything and perhaps everything! As humans, we are born with the innate power of imagination. And that's what really makes us so different from rest of the creatures on the planet. We humans have the most enviable gift of #imagination. Perhaps in future, decluttering it all and making things plain and simple might be the single-biggest differentiation. But the same feature - the height - that made you able to sell condos at exorbitant prices now turns its back and faces you as a partypooper. So when you decide to built the tallest residential towers and sell them as the most exclusive address and all that, you don't really expect there will be problems like seepage or elevator malfunctions or walls that creak - things that lesser mortals face in their humbling abodes on a routine basis. Unfortunately, that very strength often also becomes its nemesis. ![]() This often leads to creating some new compelling #features that can leave other players in the dust and establish a clear supremacy. So, how does the #productmanager and the #designer differentiate a product so that they have some hope to sell a new idea. Yes, there will be minute differences, but probably 90-95% they will mimic each other fiercely. By and large, you won't be able to tell them apart from each other in terms of size, shape, capabilities, etc. Building new products is not easy when they all look and function so much alike.
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