276: Key Steps Towards Employee Engagement, with Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo: Management 3.0 Jurgen Appelo calls himself a creative networker. Since 2008 Jurgen has penned a popular blog covering the creative economy, agile management, and personal development. He is the author of Management 3.0*, the bestselling agile management text and the proactive follow-up book, Managing for Happiness*. Key Points Not all things work for each company. You must experiment to see what works for your company culture. Incentives should be tangible. Managers should only have to manage the business systems, and the employees should be able to manage themselves. You are learning the most when half your experiments fail. Figure out how to incentivize experimentation, not just successful results. Resources Mentioned Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders* by Jurgen Appelo Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team* by Jurgen Appelo That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again* by John Kotter Related Episodes How To Create Joy At Work with Richard Sheridan (episode 122) Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223) How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.