Viapiners, me encontré este fin de semana pasado con un artículo bien interesante. Yo la mayoria de veces leo casos y mejores prácticas y me topé con el tema de cómo manejan en Google a los nuevos empleados, ya que básicamente todos (antiguos y nuevos) tienen el cassette de nuevos empleados. Esa perspectiva está grabada en sus mentes. Y con este lente hacen su día a día.
Espero lo disfruten. Muy buen día.
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Every Monday there's one surefire way to pick out the new Google employees (Nooglers) from the experienced old hands: the gawking at quality and volume of free food in our cafes. But besides filling up up their plates with one of everything, they also bring a different perspective.
- New employees are always psyched about the opportunity - they see the glass half-full, brimming with potential.
- New employees don't yet know "that's the way it's always been done here" - they see processes and limitations with fresh eyes.
- New employees aren't aware that "it's been tried before and failed" so they are able to surface the things you should be doing but struggled to execute.
- New employees introduce themselves to everyone, because, well, they're new and there's no social stigma to it at all.
- New employees don't have any political baggage - they give their colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
You get the picture.
Why do we wait for the new employees to show up or let them have all the fun? What if you behave like a new employee all the time? What if you dedicated the first day of each month to refreshing yourself for the next 30 days by saying "what am i going to do differently than i did last month?" What if you put yourself through your company's orientation program once a year in order to immerse yourself in the energy, optimism and nervousness of the new hires?
Al Casey (1922-2004) was president of the Times Mirror Company (L.A. Times), Chairman of the Board of American Airlines, Postmaster General of the United States (where he had 700,000 employees), and head of the Resolution Trust Corporation in Washington.
He was also a wonderful friend to my wife's family. I got to know Al during the last few years of his life and he truly was a brilliant, kind and adventurous man. His advice was timeless and he dispensed it generously. Here's one example:
He was also a wonderful friend to my wife's family. I got to know Al during the last few years of his life and he truly was a brilliant, kind and adventurous man. His advice was timeless and he dispensed it generously. Here's one example:
