In this book, Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change by examining the roles of 'heretics'—visionary individuals who create change in large-scale companies. The book delves into the history of human resource management, linking ideas from various fields and tracing the evolution of corporate change back almost 2,000 years. It focuses on figures such as those involved with the National Training Laboratories, Charles Krone at Procter & Gamble, and Lyman Ketchum and Ed Dulworth at General Foods. Kleiner argues that corporations exist to provide venues for people to expand their capabilities and try new things on a large scale, thereby changing the world.
Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the Management Lab, with the wonderful Gary Hamel where they help forward-thinking organizations become more resilient, innovative, and engaging places to work. Together, they recently wrote the bestselling book, Humanocracy, creating organizations, as amazing people inside of them, and their work is featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
In this week’s episode, we explore the simple steps we can each take to make our workplaces more human-centered and less bureaucratic.
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You’ll Learn:
- [04:33] - Michele explains what studies are finding about the value of embedding humanity over bureaucracy when it comes to caring for worker’s wellbeing and improving performance.
- [11:16] - Michele offers some practical steps teams can take to move towards a more human-centric approach to working together.
- [17:06] - Michele explains how you can create a movement in your workplace to be more human-centered.
- [20:45] - Michele explains how leaders can help enable change activists across their workplace.
- [25:03] - Michele enters the lightning round.
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