POUND vs. FLEX
POUND companies
Process-heavy Unnecessary procedures built over time to impress those higher up, labor-intensive metrics and mind-numbing tasks are used to validate work and impress senior management. |
Overbearing Oversight Procedures that require heavy management to ensure that unnecessary tasks have been completed. These practices burden management by wasting their time while sapping worker initiative, so that new opportunities go unnoticed. |
Underused employees Due to the way the mind works, able to focus on just one thing at a time, new ideas are literally not seen because people’s minds—and chance for advancement— depend on concentrating on mostly trivial pursuits. Ironically, employees are overworked and underused— underused for sparking the innovations companies deeply crave. |
Negativity Senior management disparages any new ideas they have not come up with. The negativity extends both to competing products as well as to any new approaches within the company. |
Dogmatism “That’s how we’ve always done it.” Employees are hemmed in by rigid attitudes, with no way to pilot test opportunities for change. |
Due to the way the mind works, able to focus on just one thing at a time,
new ideas are literally not seen because people’s minds—and chance for advancement— depend on concentrating on mostly trivial pursuits. Ironically, employees are overworked and underused— underused for sparking the innovations companies deeply crave.
Due to the way the mind works, able to focus on just one thing at a time,
new ideas are literally not seen because people’s minds—and chance for advancement— depend on concentrating on mostly trivial pursuits. Ironically, employees are overworked and underused— underused for sparking the innovations companies deeply crave.