Ask employees what they think of company policies, and you may hear a sigh. For many, policies are documents that live in a shared folder, written in dense language, consulted only when something goes wrong. For many managers, they are constraints that slow decisions. And for many leaders, they are a compliance chore to be […]
In the early days of a startup, people decisions are made quickly and informally. The founders know every employee. Offers are agreed over coffee. Policies live in someone’s head. It works, until it does not. Somewhere between the tenth and the hundredth employee, the informal approach begins to strain. Hiring gets harder. Pay questions become […]
Most organisations today are rich in measurement. Dashboards glow with numbers. Scorecards are reviewed every month. Targets are cascaded from the boardroom to the shop floor. And yet, many leaders admit to a nagging feeling: despite all this data, people do not always take ownership, results still surprise them and growth stalls in places where […]
