Comments on: Opportunity missed? People should be valued for their own sake, not just as assets by Nick Hixson https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/opportunity-missed-people-should-be-valued-for-their-own-sake-not-just-as-assets-by-nick-hixson/ Sat, 16 May 2015 06:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: Thomas Braun https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/opportunity-missed-people-should-be-valued-for-their-own-sake-not-just-as-assets-by-nick-hixson/#comment-51192 Sat, 16 May 2015 06:48:10 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=755#comment-51192 … If you are looking for a structured and friendly methodology to realize this kind of ideas in a short time, please check the SokratesMapConcept.

]]> By: Guido Bosbach https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/opportunity-missed-people-should-be-valued-for-their-own-sake-not-just-as-assets-by-nick-hixson/#comment-46962 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:06:05 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=755#comment-46962 Nick,
thanks for outlining this core element of (future) success – employee, or better stakeholder engagement.
There was a lot of discussion during the Drucker Forum on what’s missing and how to do certain things, and your right, there are no methods (as far as I know) that put people/employees (back) in focus.
So – why is that so. For my understanding most managers are simply unable to cope with getting and understanding the big picture (right) whilst in parallel trying to deal with an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
On the other side – it could be so easy if we manage to get the starting point right. For my believe there needs to be much more conversation and communication about the company vision and company culture. In an ideal world I would always try to establish, what I call “fractal vision”, i.e. a corporate vision that reflects the vision of each and every employee (or even better) stakeholder.
As of today too many companies purely focus on the investor/main shareholder most times not even exactly knowing what his/her main intentions and goals are. If we start investing (a bit of time) in understanding all stakeholders right, we could establish common goals / a common vision, that would bring not just bring employees back to their full energy/potential, but would also allow all tother stakeholder to engage.

After many discussions about the (short term) future of work (i.e. how we work in 10 years time) of work there are some statements that are mentioned by almost everyone. One of these is that work will be more flexible and that networks will be predominant. Ideally networks of people who have the same core values, different experiences and thus build perfect teams.
For companies, in order to valuable use these teams, they need to provide a real meaningful sense to the work these teams / networks should provide.
Bringing those two elements together there is a simple process companies could start: a) understand the core believes, values and goals/visions of ALL stakeholders and b) create work packages/projects/products that really reflect these “needs”. That will end up in more engages employees, more engaged business partners, more engaged customers and more opportunities to share this success.

If you combine this stakeholder needs evaluation with an analysis of (still existing) roadblocks ind the companies structure, then there is a good chance to get ready for a more and more complex and dynamic future (must have written this before 😉 )

Thanks for sharing your thoughts an the impulse I got whilst reading
Guido

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