Most workers just need the money
Stumble It!The UK Guardian reports that in a recent ICM survey, three-quarters of people said they would stop working if they won the lottery.
If we needed more evidence that something is badly wrong with our organisations this is it. The bioteaming manifesto contends that our organisations and teams need to recapture the dynamic element which is present in nature's teams. Without this our workplaces can turn into prisons of dead compliance rather than places of living commitment.
In a related and equally depressing article Laziness, lies and organizational teams I comment on two other surveys – one about employee resentment over “dead wood” colleagues and the other about lies on job application forms.
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Bioteams Books Reviews
Social Propagation is the secret to organizational and team learning
and the most evolved non-human species on the planet is not who you think it is! Arie de Geus is credited by many as the inventor of the concept of "the learning organisation". In his book "The Living Company" Arie describes an interview with Professor Alan Wilson, distinguished zoologist and botanist.
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