Margaret Heffernan: Forget the pecking order at work
Margaret Heffernan: De ce ar fi timpul să uităm de ierarhizarea muncii
The former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns -- like conflict avoidance and selective blindness -- that lead organizations and managers astray. Full bio
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at Purdue University
that concerns all of us --
ce ne preocupă pe toţi –
because you just count the eggs.
trebuie doar să numeri ouăle.
his chickens more productive,
găinile mai productive,
un admirabil experiment.
he selected just an average flock,
a selectat un grup obişnuit
timp de şase generaţii.
most productive chickens --
only the most productive for breeding.
pe cele mai productive pentru reproducţie.
was doing just fine.
o ducea bine.
a crescut semnificativ.
had increased dramatically.
had only achieved their success
au avut succes
of the rest.
productivităţii celorlalte.
talking about this and telling this story
spunând această poveste
and companies,
de toate tipurile,
the relevance almost instantly,
aproape imediat
things to me like,
we have to get ahead is to compete:
prin care putem răzbi este competiţia:
get into the right job, get to the top,
găseşte job-ul potrivit, să ajungi sus,
very inspiring.
nu m-au inspirat niciodată.
because invention is a joy,
pentru că invenţia este o bucurie
brilliant, creative people
alături de oameni geniali, creativi
by pecking orders or by superchickens
de ierarhii, de supergăini
and some societies
şi unele societăţi au fost conduse
by picking the superstars,
alegând superstarurile,
or occasionally women, in the room,
(sau, ocazional, femei) disponibili
and all the power.
şi toată puterea.
as in William Muir's experiment:
din experimentul lui William Muir:
can be successful
cel mai productiv poate avea succes
the productivity of the rest,
productivităţii celorlalţi,
a better way to work
un mod mai bun de a lucra
and more productive than others?
şi mai productive decât altele?
a team at MIT took to research.
să rezolve probleme foarte grele.
gave them very hard problems to solve.
what you'd expect,
cel la care vă aşteptaţi,
more successful than others,
mult mai mult succes decât altele,
a fost că echipele performante
was that the high-achieving groups
one or two people
unul sau doi oameni
the ones that had the highest
nici echipele cu cea mai ridicată medie
the really successful teams.
au avut trei caracteristici.
of social sensitivity to each other.
de sensibilitate socială reciprocă.
the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.
Test de Citire a Minţii prin Privire,
un test de empatie,
a test for empathy,
gave roughly equal time to each other,
au dat cam același cuvânt tuturor,
typically score more highly on
de obicei un punctaj mai mare
on the empathy quotient?
a coeficientului de empatie?
o perspectivă diversificată?
a more diverse perspective?
thing about this experiment
în legătură cu acest experiment
some groups do better than others,
unele grupuri au performanțe mai bune,
to each other.
in the real world?
between people really counts,
între oameni chiar contează,
attuned and sensitive to each other,
şi sensibilitate reciprocă e ridicat,
Nu îşi pierd energia în direcţii greşite.
They don't waste energy down dead ends.
most successful engineering firms,
de succes companii de inginerie
centrul de echitaţie
the equestrian center
really highly strung thoroughbred horses
not feeling their finest.
the engineer confronted was,
a întâmpinat-o a fost
de luat în considerare.
in engineering school -- (Laughter) --
la şcoala de inginerie – (Râsete) –
la care ai vrea să dai greş,
you want to get wrong,
discutând cu veterinari, cercetând,
talking to vets, doing the research,
the Jockey Club in New York.
Jockey Club din New York.
în mai puţin de o zi.
the culture of helpfulness
această cultură a întrajutorării
to successful teams,
echipelor de succes
individual intelligence.
inteligenţa individuală.
nu trebuie să ştiu tot,
have to know everything,
who are good at getting and giving help.
se pricep să primească şi să ofere ajutor.
any question in 17 minutes.
la orice întrebare în 17 minute.
high-tech company I've worked with
cu care să fi lucrat
that this is a technology issue,
o problemă de tehnologie,
apare și întrajutorarea.
is people getting to know each other.
it'll just happen normally,
că se întâmplă în mod firesc,
my first software company,
prima mea companie de software,
but not much else,
dar nimic mai mult
creative people that I'd hired
geniali şi creativi pe care i-am angajat
on their own individual work,
asupra muncii proprii,
who they were sitting next to,
să ne oprim din muncit
that we stop working
to know each other
acum vizitez companii
and now I visit companies
around the coffee machines
să petreacă timp la automatele de cafea
a special term for this.
pentru asta.
more than a coffee break.
mai mult decât o pauză de cafea.
în campus pentru ca oamenii
on campus so that people
the whole business that way.
la curent cu întregul business.
that when the going gets tough,
atunci când lucrurile se complică,
that really matters,
care chiar contează,
only people do.
they develop between each other.
pe care le dezvoltă între ei.
called social capital.
and interdependency that builds trust.
care construieşte încrederea.
care au studiat comunităţile
who were studying communities
în perioade de stres.
in times of stress.
gives companies momentum,
conferă companiilor energie,
is what makes companies robust.
compounds with time.
se bazează pe timp.
get better, because it takes time
devin mai bune, căci e nevoie de timp
for real candor and openness.
pentru sinceritate reală şi deschidere.
construieşte valoare.
suggested to one company
a sugerat unei companii
to talk to each other,
să vorbească între ei,
la 15 milioane de dolari,
went up 10 percent.
a capitalului social,
pe măsură ce îl utilizezi.
and it's no charter for slackers,
nici de o adunătură de leneşi
tind să fie oarecum iritaţi,
tend to be kind of scratchy,
să gândească pentru ei înşişi
to think for themselves
pentru că își permit să fie sinceri.
because candor is safe.
turn into great ideas,
se transformă în idei măreţe,
nu ia naştere în forma finală.
as a child is born,
ca naşterea unui copil,
dar cu multiple posibilităţi.
but full of possibilities.
contribution, faith and challenge
şi provocări din plin
to talking about this,
să discutăm despre asta,
in this way.
în acest fel.
despre staruri.
well, if we start working this way,
dacă începem să lucrăm aşa,
of Dramatic Art in London.
din Londra.
chiar m-a surprins,
for individual pyrotechnics.
talente individuale.
between the students,
albumelor de succes,
to producers of hit albums,
lots of superstars in music.
multe superstaruri în muzică.
who enjoy the long careers,
au cariere de durată,
is how they found the best
ce-i mai bun în ceilalţi,
that are renowned
creativitatea lor,
de acolo conta cu adevărat.
I've had the privilege to work with,
cu care am avut șansa să lucrez,
we could give each other
mult mai mult unii altora
to be superchickens.
truly how social work is,
ceea ce este munca socială,
has routinely pitted
de aptitudine i-a stârnit pe angajaţi
de capitalul social.
by social capital.
to motivate people with money,
să-i motivăm pe oameni cu bani,
a vast amount of research that shows
motivate each other.
să se motiveze reciproc.
sunt eroi de la care se aşteaptă
were heroic soloists who were expected,
de unii singuri.
to solve complex problems.
conditions are created
ar trebui create condiţii
în mod curajos.
courageous thinking together.
for the phasing out of CFCs,
pentru eliminarea treptată a CFC,
pentru gaura din stratul de ozon,
in the hole in the ozone layer,
un substitut.
could be found.
a adoptat trei principii-cheie.
adopted three key principles.
Frank Maslen, a spus:
Frank Maslen, said,
Geoff Tudhope,
how disruptive power can be.
poate fi puterea.
Tudhope nu a făcut nimic.
that they honored their principles.
că respectă principiile companiei.
companies tackling this hard problem,
care au abordat această problemă,
Protocolul de la Montreal
internaţional de mediu
environmental agreement
dacă aşteptăm să fie rezolvate
if we expect it to be solved
that everybody has value
că fiecare aduce valoare
and imagination and momentum we need
şi impulsul de care avem nevoie
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Margaret Heffernan - Management thinkerThe former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns -- like conflict avoidance and selective blindness -- that lead organizations and managers astray.
Why you should listen
How do organizations think? In her book Willful Blindness, Margaret Heffernan examines why businesses and the people who run them often ignore the obvious -- with consequences as dire as the global financial crisis and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Heffernan began her career in television production, building a track record at the BBC before going on to run the film and television producer trade association IPPA. In the US, Heffernan became a serial entrepreneur and CEO in the wild early days of web business. She now blogs for the Huffington Post and BNET.com. Her latest book, Beyond Measure, a TED Books original, explores the small steps companies can make that lead to big changes in their culture.
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