Ideal Values for an Exceptional IT Environment?
Q: What are the shared values that the company or team have in an inspired IT environment?
Similarly, what are the behaviors or conditions that threatened this environment?
NG
IT Strategy & Globalization Professional in the Auto Industry
A: Dear NG:
The right culture fits the economic footprint of the business. Values need to match the context (how the company competes). There are no universal values of great companies or IT environments.
Sure, that’s not what you usually read in business books, but what you usually hear doesn’t work well either.
See if you agree with these examples...
Q: What's a "damn good life?"
In Fortune Magazine, Steve Jobs said, "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Life is brief and then you die... So it'd better be damn good." How can we make our lives that damn good? Anonymous
A: Ever life can be a damn good one
Dear Anonymous
Steve’s quote is interesting because it reveals a model that I think Steve didn’t followed himself. The model is, “Be excellent, so you can do great things in a short lifetime.” Is that how Steve did it? No.
Steve Jobs a driver who is also a visionary. He has high standards and demands excellence from others. He never settles for ordinary.
That is not the same thing as being excellent. Steve has never been about “being”; Steve’s life is all about “doing”, not about being excellent, but about making excellence.
I love the quote from Joe Sabah, “You don’t have to be good to start, but you have to...
Q: What can I do to make my organization more innovative?
Dear Engaging Guru,
I work in a water treatment plant in NY. I need some practical ideas for increasing innovation that I can start to use right away. I don’t have time to take training or read books.
MM
A: Dear MM.
It takes 3 things to increase innovation.
1. A context of uncertainty
2. An attitude of curiosity and possibility
3. Congruent leadership behavior
Q: What innovations will drive world business in the next decade?
Dear Engaging Guru:
I’m a Strategist and Change Agent. What innovations will change business organizations and the world economy in the next decade?
JP
A: innovations that enable a human capital revolution ...
Michael Cushman
in Trends, Innovation
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