Things That Almost Never Work<\/h2>\n

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• The counteroffer<\/li>\n
• Teams where everyone agrees<\/li>\n
• Having no social media policy<\/li>\n
• Fixing problems with the same level of thinking that created them<\/li>\n
• Policies etched in stone<\/li>\n
• Waiting<\/li>\n
• Rear-wheel drive cars and Cleveland winters<\/li>\n
• The employee of the month parking space<\/li>\n
• Paying someone more because they are unhappy<\/li>\n
• Paying everyone equally<\/li>\n
• Paternalism<\/li>\n
• Promoting someone whose values don\u2019t align with the organization<\/li>\n
• Neglecting to teach employees the details of our business<\/li>\n
• Deciding to contribute to your 401(k) later<\/em><\/li>\n
• Blind dates arranged by your parents<\/li>\n
• Ignoring conflict<\/li>\n
• Hope-based strategies<\/li>\n
• Legislating fun<\/li>\n
• Never taking a chance<\/li>\n
• Silos<\/li>\n
• Breaking down silos with top-down initiatives<\/li>\n
• Top-down initiatives without bottom-up influence<\/li>\n
• Disallowing bottom-up influence<\/li>\n
• Free-loading relatives<\/li>\n
• Accountability without authority<\/li>\n
• Empowerment without support<\/li>\n
• Delegation without clarity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Yet we do these, sometimes over and over again, thinking the results will be different the next time. Experience is a great teacher<\/strong>. Maybe we just have to pay more attention while we\u2019re in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Things That Almost Never Work The counteroffer Teams where everyone agrees Having no social media policy Fixing problems with the same level of thinking that created them Policies etched in stone Waiting Rear-wheel drive cars and Cleveland winters The employee of the month parking space Paying someone more because they are unhappy Paying everyone equally …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}