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How to balance flexibility and structure in a hybrid team environment
Understanding the challenges of managing a hybrid team
How to maintain team cohesion
Correcting the culture
- Empathy at the core business. He believed understanding customer unmet and uninformed needs required high levels of empathy. The thought the same levels of empathy need to be extended internally to employees as well. This helped Microsoft to transform from a metric-based, process-based organisation to a more humane one.
- He saw performance not as a zero-sum game but a win-win situation for everyone. Thus having a performance management system based on a forced ranking of employees didn't make much sense to him. The overhaul of the same led to the improvement of Microsoft culture.
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Microsoft learns to use networks and embrace openness
- Recent acquisitions of Microsoft has been focused on building capacity and infrastructure in areas where they lacked.
- Microsoft has been traditionally weak in the building of communities of its users as compared to other tech giants like Facebook, google or apple.
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Satya Nadella as a refounder to Microsoft
- Satya Nadella when came in was confused about how to position himself. To be clear what he can bring to the table to a global organisation with superstar founders.
- He applied the first principle thinking to relook at some of the assumptions underlying the business model and wa...
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Leading Emergent Innovation
- The morale of the business team of 'Bing' the search engine was down because it was a loss-making business. However, Nadella sensed an opportunity.
- He looked at the world-class talent and resources at bing and figured that the same resources could be used at developing similar ...
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The Cons Of Incentive Programs
- May Encourage Deception: Employees may look for ways to make their performance appear to be good when it isn’t.
- Misaligned Incentives: poorly conceived ones may incentivize risky and irresponsible behavior that undermines the mission of the company.
Incentivizing Leads to Gaming
The rewards of the metric performance measurement can be as a form of a monetary bonus, stocks or just an enhanced grade or designation, leading to competition among employees. This leads to many employees gaming the system to affect the bottom line of their metrics.
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Intervene in the moments that matter
- If you see that a manager has excluded one of their employees from a meeting, make sure to invite them and be clear that you extended the invitation.
- If a manager is creating a negative narrative of an employee’s performance in talent planning sessions, speak up in the moment and as...
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