"Autonomy is the pathway to accountability. Management may give compliance but more and more we need engagement. Pink talked about:
Netflix which pays its people well to take the issue off the table but (rare in Silicon Valley) doesn’t give its people stock options as it wants people to think about customers not stock. And also allows people to take as much vacation as they want.
Facebook where new hires attend a 5 or 6 week boot camp before individuals decide in which team they want to work
Atlassian’s ‘FedEx Days’ where every Thursday, people are told to go and work on anything they want, with whoever they want, in what ever way they want, but need to come back to show people their ideas on Friday afternoons in a free wheeling session. This one day has led to a whole variety of ideas for fixes, new products and internal processes. The principle is that employees want to do things for the organisation and these days get the organisation out of their day.
Intuit which announced a new strategy to focus on mobile technology. None of the departments were able to change direction on a dot, but individual employees created 7 mobile apps in their 10% time before any formal projects even got started."
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