WINNING

This is not a legal post so skip over if you aren't in the mood. Yours truly was listening to the audio book 'Winning' by Jack Welch the former CEO of GE and I am struck by the clarity and lack of quackery in his approach to work. Never having read any news reports about the fellow all knowledge so far comes from 'Winning' itself.

But to the ideas.

1. Telling the truth: Do your people feel cheated or that they are being kicked around in the game because they are being assessed by unknown criteria or they are being told one thing while being judged by another?
There are always justifications. Always. The market is bad or the economy is slow or you should not be naive, you have to wait your turn e.t.c.
With this it is little wonder that once these same people find their feet they go where their interests will be served best, loyalty be damned. They probably feel that they earned their way.

Mr Welch makes another point about the results an employee produces being the only things that can give her any wiggle room or perks whatsoever. It works like a chit system where you give your results in exchange for perks or whatever. This becomes clear after a while and definitely after a few hard knocks, but the public presentation is that all are equal and this message is pushed at the naive, innocent and gullible: blame them for being stupid enough to believe the brochure.
Then the employee gets to thinking, if these people can do this for how to get ahead within this structure what else is happening that I am unaware about. And so the games begin.
None of this is easy either for management or the employee.

One simple message from Winning is you are better of fighting to be realistic with yourself as to the choices the people you work with and who work for you will make under certain situations so that a gay time will be had by all.