Posts Tagged ‘remuneration’

Great People Decisions

Posted in Book Review, Human Resources Management, Strategy on December 20th, 2009 by Paul McArdle – 2 Comments

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In 2010, as a result of our Autopsy 2 process, we have identified that we need to make two key appointments in 2010:

GM of Design, Development & Delivery.

GM of Marketing & Sales

We need to do this for a number of reasons – not least of which is to ensure that the company can become sustainable over the longer term, and to allow me to spend more time focused on other aspects of continuing to grow the business.

These appointments will be key positions for us, moving forwards. Hence this book was very timely….

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… not to mention a great read!

The Book

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“Great People Decisions”
by Claudio Fernandez Araoz		 Thumbs upVery thought-provoking
Full Disclosure – yes, that’s a tracked link to Amazon shown above. We buy quite a large number of books on a wide range of topics, all relevant to our business in some way.  If you did happen to purchase the book from Amazon, they’d throw a few shekels our way, which would help us to buy (and hence publish reviews of) even more books.  Hence, Karma would return the benefits to you…

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Book Review: People Glue

Posted in Book Review, Human Resources Management on November 12th, 2009 by Paul McArdle – 1 Comment

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Whilst there is some debate about the order in which they should be ranked (i.e. is it customers-employees-shareholders or employees-customers-shareholders) it is fair to say that employees are central to any business’ success (including ours).

With all the changes we have had on the go in the company since the autopsy, I have been very conscious of the need to ensure that all employees are still engaged and aligned (despite the fact that I might not do a great job at this at times).

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Hence this book was of great interest to me:

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“People Glue”
by Ian Hutchinson		 Thumbs up

A great framework
Full Disclosure – nope, not an Amazon link this time.
Picked up this book at the AIM’s Management Bookshop, so the link above is to this source.  Well worth reading, even for our overseas stalkers.

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Read this book in spurts, but all together, it probably only took a couple of hours to get through it all.  Definitely a framework to apply in our company.

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Incentivisation and Motivation - the Daniel Pink Way

Posted in Article Review, Human Resources Management, The Managing Director's Philosophy on September 24th, 2009 by Paul McArdle – 5 Comments

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An article “How to make the rats run harder” in the AFR recently pointed me in this direction, which is great.  The article was written to promote a book “A whole new mind”, and references another, “Predictable Irrational” by Dan Ariely.  We have dutifully added both to our Amazon cart and will review in due course.

The article, and associated materials, is very relevant to discussions that are ongoing within our company about how to meet the challenges of the next 10 years.

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The basic premise:

As is noted ad-nauseum these days – the lower paid, unskilled or semi-skilled work is being outsourced to other countries, or automated.

For people in OECD countries like Australia, that leaves everyone who remains chasing a growing number of jobs in the “knowledge economy” [replace with your favourite buzz-word here].

To motivate such people (where creativity is a core part of the job), a fundamentally different system of incentivisation and motivation is required, compared to the previous (Taylorist) world in which a crude combination of carrots and sticks was good enough to achieve an outcome.

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