Comments on: Trust the Employees or Trust the Controls? http://www.boldenterprises.com/2007/12/29/trust-the-employees-or-trust-the-controls/ Designing Tomorrow's Working Cultures Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:10:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Karl Edwards http://www.boldenterprises.com/2007/12/29/trust-the-employees-or-trust-the-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Karl Edwards Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:35:32 +0000 http://www.boldenterprises.com/2007/12/29/trust-the-employees-or-trust-the-controls/#comment-22 Good point. Maybe the value of any new rule could be tested by its effect... Whether it has a facilitating, structuring and/or guiding effect on the one hand. Or whether it has a quenching, controlling and/or limiting effect on the other. Good point. Maybe the value of any new rule could be tested by its effect… Whether it has a facilitating, structuring and/or guiding effect on the one hand. Or whether it has a quenching, controlling and/or limiting effect on the other.

]]> By: Eric Eggertson http://www.boldenterprises.com/2007/12/29/trust-the-employees-or-trust-the-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Eric Eggertson Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:12:48 +0000 http://www.boldenterprises.com/2007/12/29/trust-the-employees-or-trust-the-controls/#comment-21 Thanks for the mention! I'm not saying there shouldn't be ANY rules, but the rules should be about principles, values and behavior, not a list of all the things people can't do. That gets them in mistake-avoidance mode, when they should be in achieving objectives mode. Thanks for the mention!

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be ANY rules, but the rules should be about principles, values and behavior, not a list of all the things people can’t do. That gets them in mistake-avoidance mode, when they should be in achieving objectives mode.

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