Re:Is the HP Way still relevant today?
by heisenbit on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:52AM
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast (unknown author but often attributed to Drucker).
Boards often ignore this wisdom and install people based on their previous job elsewhere, long term inside knowledge in a different role or whatever. When the leader of the company is not standing behind the values and defending them the company starts drifting. People become cynical about what unites them and that uniting includes management up to the CEO - or now divides them. In these cases official company values imho. can even become liability as everyone is constantly reminded of double-speak from the top.
Reading "The HP Way" is a reminder on how much business is about people and the society - often forgotten these days.
Boards often ignore this wisdom and install people based on their previous job elsewhere, long term inside knowledge in a different role or whatever. When the leader of the company is not standing behind the values and defending them the company starts drifting. People become cynical about what unites them and that uniting includes management up to the CEO - or now divides them. In these cases official company values imho. can even become liability as everyone is constantly reminded of double-speak from the top.
Reading "The HP Way" is a reminder on how much business is about people and the society - often forgotten these days.