Secrets of Success at Amazon.com
Interesting list of successful principles that worked for Amazon. Check them out and see how they would apply to your company, non-profit organization, or project.
Tags: Media & Change
The Change Revolution with Phil Cooke
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WHOA!
That is an awesome approach.
The Christian world would not know what to do with that kind of emvironment.
Finding, empowering and allowing experts to thrive, create and do what they know to do...wow.
What a wonderful world it would be.
The Amazon approach is so cool it's beyond comment. This is definitely clip & save material.
At my last management position producing a weekly Christian TV show I started to foster an environment whereby a once downtrod staff were empowered to offer ideas, make decisions, fix problems themselves, and just think wild, crazy ideas. The show & staff needed to change. Within 11 months I was ignored by the pastor, isolated by other leaders and finally "laid off" by church management. I regret nothing. That said, best beware that often there are levels of management (Christian or not) that hate to embrace change and who see your creative flow as a threat. Creativity and innovation either trickle down from the top (Amazon's Jeff Bezos) or rise up from the bottom (the common worker). When innovation is applauded by leadership and people thrive, you've got organizational karma, baby.
"Doors for desks" = frugal? Think: hip and cool.
These are the princples that are being taught in current MBA programs to those studying relationship marketing and the service-profit chain. Thankfully, academics have found a way to prove scientifically, that these "people-oriented" mangement princples actually do have a positive impact on the bottom line!
Love it!
"Getting rid of the influence of the HiPPO's, the highest paid people in the room."
There is always a bias there, even (perhaps especially?) in ministries and churches.
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