February 8, 2012
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.
As a senior executive, you may think you know what Job Number 1 is: developing a killer strategy. In fact, this is only Job 1a. You have a second, equally important task. Call it Job 1b: enabling the ongoing engagement and everyday progress of the people in the trenches of your organization who strive to execute that strategy. A multiyear research project whose results we described in [the authors'] recent book, The Progress Principle [Harvard Business Press, 2011], found that of all the events that can deeply engage people in their jobs, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.
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