Figure It Out
文章提出,创新和足智多谋的员工是新产品开发的关键。以非营利组织CEO安吉拉·布兰查德和通用电气为例,说明“自己想办法”的管理风格和组织文化如何激发创造力。
The article presents the idea that innovative and resourceful employees are an important part of new-product development. The author mentions Angela Blanchard, chief executive officer (CEO) of Neighborhood Centers nonprofit organization in Texas whose management style is to hire smart people and empower them to come up with solutions to the challenges they encounter in the jobs or figure it out (FIO) for themselves. The author then talks about the FIO type of job in the context of General Electric (GE) company's approach to producing products for emerging markets. She says GE's success depends on creative innovation and the FIO yourself type of organizational culture celebrates ingenuity.