The Ready
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2023 by Aaron Dignan · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Feb 7, 2023 negative
Dignan: Modern organizational practices were designed for factory-era standardization
“The way we work today, when you think about hierarchies and bosses and managers and boxes and lines and Gantt charts and schedules and quarterly plans and budgets, all that stuff came about Roughly 80 to a 120 years ago, and it came about in the time of the fa…”
Feb 7, 2023
Dignan: My firm builds and sorts all meeting agendas dynamically on the fly
“We build all of our agendas on the fly. So we don't have pre-planned meeting agendas that are politically aligned with whoever Sidled up to the leader to get the time on the agenda. We just build the agendas on the fly. We sort them on the fly.”
Feb 7, 2023 positive
Dignan: Employees rise to the occasion when leaders share problems without solutions
“A lot of the organizations that we've studied have a story somewhere in their history of like times got really tough or things got really bad. And a leader chose to just go public to the group without a solution. And people really rise to the occasion.”
Feb 7, 2023
Dignan: My firm allows discretionary spending up to $10,000 without seeking advice
“We have a constraint in our system that if you spend more than 10,000 dollars on something, you should probably seek advice first. But anything under that, it's like, you know, use your human judgment. We trust you to do what's best for the business, right? Sp…”