how to build a workplace people love | richard sheridan

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insights from Richard Sheridan

This presentation consists of highlights from the interview with Moe Abdou,

founder & host of 33voices®.

Richard SheridanFrom kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, “outlier” Richard Sheri-dan has never shied from challenges, op-portunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the business value of joy! Sheridan is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn’t invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison’s Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Henry Ford’s recreation of the Menlo Park Lab in Green-field Village was a childhood inspiration!

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In business - as in life -the risk of staying the same is far greater than the opportunity to change.

embrace it.

2

In creating an open and collaborative work environment,

start by first weaving it into the culture and everything else will follow.

3

The business value of joy is an evangelistic work force,

Electrifying ingenuity and a remarkable product.

4

In a boss led culture, few emerge as leaders.while in a boss-less environment, everyone is encouraged to lend expertise.

5

Don’t confuse a boss-less environment

with being leaderless.while the latter inspires you to do it.

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Build learning into your work model,and you’ll harness the collective brainpower of your team,

and enhance the serendipity of new insights.

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Build learning into your work model,and you’ll harness the collective brainpower of your team,

and enhance the serendipity of new insights.

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Want to empower and encourage learning in your organization?

Pump fear out of the room.

8

To inspire an ownership mentality, try giving everyone a voice in your strategic planning process,

and be transparent about your financial results.

9

In a peer led organization,it’s the opinion of your peers that evaluates your performance and promotability.

Want to move up? Ask them.

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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you - a joy”

- Rumi

try it!

If you can describe your work environment in one word, what would it be?

REALLY REFLECT...

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