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#Culture

When people feel work is oriented towards their growing as a person, then it feels most meaningful.  But companies spend all their dollars on career development. 

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Processes-People-Profits

Are your processes designed to optimize your people to maximize your profits?  You will do your organization a great service to think long and hard about that question. 

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Employee Fulfillment

In your organization, other than a paycheck, why do people show up for work every day?

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Job Fit

Zappos and Amazon offer to pay employees to walk away from their jobs at the end of a 90-day trial period.  They encourage them to take a onetime payout of $5,000.  Why?  Because not everyone is right for the job, and it's better to realize that sooner than later.

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#CorporateCulture

Is your organization a performance-culture or an excuse-culture?

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Goal vs Process

Don't confuse the process with the goal.  Working on your processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something you should continually work on, but it is not the goal.  Making your products and services great is the goal. 

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#Culture

Candor overrides hierarchy.

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#Culture

One of the several goals in creating a high-performance culture is to eliminate fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employee's hearts .

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#Complacency

Stretch goals make complacency impossible.  Develop a healthy disregard for the impossible. 

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Human Capital vs. Financial Capital

The economy is increasingly based not on financial capital but on human capital, and how the abilities of the people in an organization, much more than traditionally important factors like economies of scale or patent protections, determine an organization's success or failure. 

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