Business has been done, and done again. But as times have changed we have not always. Having fun at work is not a new concept, it's just frowned upon for some baffling reason. As if by some magical court a law was passed declaring that anyone who has fun at work will by definition not be working hard enough. Must we be miserable in the place we spend most of our lives? We think not. And here are our thoughts on the subject.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Turning the Office Pyramid on its Head
Ever since I was a kid I've had the vision of businesses as pyramids that needed to be climbed. We see it all the time in the images of climbing the corporate ladder, working our way to the top, and any number of other analogies putting the people who do the front-line work, at the bottom of the organization.
These are the faces that the customers see every day. Those very people who are in the mail room, at the cash registers, that do the service calls and answer the phones are the real faces and image of their organizations. A company is not a pyramid, nearly as much as it is a diamond.
Let's examine the 4 C's of grading a diamond and see how your organization measures up.
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