Great organizations achieve sustainable growth and profits because they do what other organizations don’t: they maximize the innate, individual talents of their employees to connect with customers. They know that tapping the resources of humans is the only remaining area where significant improvements can--and do--lead to an unlimited source of competitive advantages."
Curt Coffman, Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, in Follow this Path 2002
My hairdresser is at it again - managing my curls and filling my head with exciting thoughts. This weekend it was Fruits.
Fruits is a Japanese magazine. It is choc full with fabulous images of Tokyo street fashion; young women who are unashamedly devoted to fashion and who relish to opportunity to be creative and display their difference. Each of these women has clearly taken a lot of time to create an individual interpretation of what is currently considered "in-style".
We all yearn to be noticed for our difference and our unique contributions. The hankering doesn’t stop just because we work in a corporate setting with a common set of goals and objectives.
Remember the book "Now, Discover your strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton?
It focuses on building organizations and individuals based on people’s strengths. The message resonated with many of us who for years have been trying to fix the deficits and fit into the mould.
With more honours students coming out of India and China then we have children in North America, the only true competitive advantage any organization has is the creativity and flexibility of its people. Why would we not use that to its fullest by encouraging individual talents?
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