It's the skills that can't be replicated with as much ease before the Turing test workers and their leaders should focus on
Agile
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There has been a lot of talk on the topic of aligning incentives to the company strategy but what happens when that strategy is nebulous itself? What happens when the overt goals of the organization are stuck in McKinsey slides hell while its real needs, clear to one and all don’t […]
In our practice at PeopleNotTech, we tell organizations that if they want Google, Apple or Amazon-like results they need Google, Apple or Amazon-like work culture. It is that simple. To emulate the velocity and speed of innovation that have created their success, one of the key things that these organizations uphold and eternally strive to better, is psychological safety.
It’s hard to argue with the tangible results of transforming any work function into a practice of some type of Agile process. More things get done and they get done faster. More importantly, new things get done - things that hadn’t yet made their way to unchallenged stale lists now have the space to enter backlogs and a fair chance at being prioritized and that allows any type of knowledge-based team to test and fail and ultimately innovate.
Having the knowledge to frame a problem with considered, literate wording, the need to continuously and incessantly think of the consumers and ways to make their lives better and do so as if you’re just starting out, with the passion of a start-up founder and the courage of a rapid decision maker is what will delay Amazon’s death not its balance sheet.