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Happy New Year everyone! It's the perfect time of year
to come up for a little air, reflect and ask yourself, "Are you feeling inspired
at work? Well, are you?" (It's more impressive if you use Clint Eastwood's voice.)
Gary Hamel, author of "The
Future of Management" offers three great questions that might help you
create a more inspiring workplace this year:
1. How can you broaden the scope of
employee freedom by managing less, without sacrificing focus and discipline?
2. How can you create a workplace
where a true spirit of community binds people together, rather than the
machinery of bureaucracy (because seriously, "machinery of bureaucracy" is a phrase no one wants to hear. Ever. Not even machinists or bureaucrats.)
3. How can you enlarge the sense of
mission that people feel throughout your organization in a way that justifies
EXTRAORDINARY contribution? (Why be ordinary when you can be extra ordinary?)
Great questions to brainstorm, mull
over, swirl about and swish around your hallways and boardrooms.
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't add my own fourth question:
4. What are you going to do to create more fun in your workplace this year each and every day?
As we boldly sail into
2012 I'll be offering insights in those questions, and many others, in our collective quest to change how the world works! (Or heck, at least, how your workplace works.)
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