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Why employee silence is management’s biggest failure

In many businesses, silence is interpreted as a sign of serenity. No apparent tensions, few disputes, meetings where everyone agrees, HR barometers that aren't flashing red. In short, a climate that is described as "calm". But this apparent calm is not always a sign of a well-functioning organization and can just as easily reflect a breakdown in communication. When employees no longer say what they think, no longer report problems, no longer dare to suggest alternatives or simply ask questions, this is not engagement but a weak signal of the failure of...

Eight technology trends for business improvement

As usual it comes from McKinsey and can be downloaded here. It's about distributed innovation, transforming information into business, taking benefits from human interaction, turning...

Reinventing management according to McKinsey

After having published some studies about the "soft ROI" of organizational performance and informal networks, McKinsey brought out something very interesting about the need...

How to do the splits…or 3M difficulties

It's been a long time a wanted to write something about what 3M experienced in their Six Sigma project. Happily this note from Rex...

Management 2.0 (2): facts and premises

Continuation of this article. To be honest, I should say THE premise, because everything stems from it. After that, you can be rather directive, participative, think...