Recently there was a fascinating article published by Inc. magazine detailing a two-year study conducted by Google that revealed what factors were the keys to staff performance.
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| The article on the Inc. website |
Author Mark Thompson, a California-based business consultant, summarized the study, which ultimately revealed that it’s how a team works together that matters more than who is on it. In other words, recruiting an all-star team of performers isn’t what makes the difference; rather, it’s the common focus and mission of the people on the team—as a whole—that leads to success.
As Thompson wrote, “the rock star status of the individuals selected for the team played a smaller role in organizational success than the willingness of each member to commit serious effort to work together to achieve big hairy audacious goals as a team.”
Big hairy audacious goals. There’s a phrase you don’t hear every day. But it illustrates the point perfectly. You want people working for you, and with you, who are passionately committed to a common purpose—who have the community’s interest at heart, and not just their own.
The survey results align with what we know about Millennials (a topic I wrote about in my last blog post). Millennials are value-based, and expect companies and organizations to focus on people, products and purpose over profit. In a few short years, they will make up the majority of the work force.
In business today, it’s not the top-down-oriented, authoritarian leader who gets results. The old style of leadership has been replaced with one that focuses on bringing a team together and letting them come up with solutions that work.
Our consulting and team-building sessions are oriented to this new way of thinking for a new century. What we’re witnessing, and our clients are discovering, is that management’s job today is truly to bring out the best in people—to motivate them to optimum performance, as a team.
Click here to read the entire article by Mark Thompson at the Inc. website.
Jim Ondrus pioneered the management concept of Leadership Transitioning™. He is president of JA Ondrus, LLC, a Canton, Ohio executive coaching firm.
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