There are two aspects to #diversity to consider in your org - demographic and cognitive diversity. Addressing demographic diversity involves removing cognitive bias in hiring. Addressing cognitive diversity involves conscious choice of hiring for different experiences.

#BetterWaysOfWorking

Traditional businesses operate using command-and-control, top-down management. Emerging business philosophies prioritize peer-based responsibility and freedom.

#BetterWaysOfWorking

We also encouraged our people to interview regularly. That was the most reliable and efficient way to find out how competitive our pay was.

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A flatter power gradient results in less censoring because it feels safer. Employees in flatter hierarchies will speak truth to power, tell it like it is, admit mistakes, and deliver bad news.

#BetterWaysOfWorking

Here are some of the managerial actions that tend to produce teamicidal side effects:
• Annual salary or merit reviews
• Management by objectives (MBO)
• Praise of certain workers for extraordinary accomplishment
• Awards, prizes, bonuses tied to performance
• Performance measurement in almost any form...

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What a few future-facing businesses are discovering is that one of these essential features is autonomy—in particular, #autonomy over four aspects of work: what people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with. As Atlassian’s experience shows, Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T’s: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

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Tell the Team That It Can Work How It Chooses

Proclaiming to the team that it has freedom to determine how to organize is an incredible thing to do, especially if it is used to working in a rigid process.

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