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The power of rhetoric to change the world

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I listened today to the original footage of the speech Martin Luther King gave where he declared “I have a dream….”  It was a powerful reminder of how words can change the world. 50 years later, much has been accomplished, and much remains. I asked some colleagues to share with me what they have done in the last day, week, month to really connect with someone who is different from them. Different in visible ways, and in less visible ways.  What have they done to include someone in their world?  The answers were encouraging, startling, sad, and hopeful. What would you say?

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Required versus wanting too – why should employees come to work?

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Yahoo continues to combat the bad press it is receiving since mandating that employees show up at the office.  Under vague references to inspiring people, creating collaboration opportunities and so forth, they seem to miss the point. If you create a compelling, collaborative, and energizing environment, people will show up because not being there feels like a loss.  And they wlil work from home when they need the mind-space to produce, or when they need to balance their work schedules with home / personal requirements, whatever those might be.  But if “the office” physically is attractive enough, they will find ways to show up, instead of marching in under orders.

So the question to Yahoo shouldn’t be why have so many people been working from home, instead it should be why haven’t they been coming to work?  And the answer probably isn’t because they were allowed to, or they weren’t required to…..more likely it is because there wasn’t a rewarding experience for which they felt compelled to show up.