The lazy employee revisited
"Just listen to your heart" supports the Fast Company article at least as far as decision making goes.
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Bill Harris founded Facilitated Systems in 1999 to help people by helping the organizations in which they spend so much of their time. He uses a number of approaches to help them make sense of the puzzles and problems organizations face.
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While they don't reveal the details of their model, it seems by their admission (p. 22) that it does not incorporate feedback effects. Thus it may miss behaviors that could prove dominant and perhaps more damaging over time.
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Perhaps you read the first edition. So did I; I think I recommended it for the company library where I worked at the time and read it there. My recollection is that I liked that version, but I like this version so much more. Perhaps it's his new version; perhaps it's my added experience since I read that first edition (I no longer have easy access to check). Even if you read the first edition, read this one, too.
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I suspect those who think their business will never be hurting are mistaken, but they may not be open to this message today.
I suspect that you are an optimist with a grounding in reality, if you stick around here. I hope you're either not hurting or poised on the threshold of a transition that will help you succeed even more (see the second point).
If your business is hurting, or if it's doing well but you'd like to prepare for the next transition, whatever that is, let's talk.
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