You Can't Run Your Mid-Sized Organization Like Amazon - - Weekly Downloads with Rob & Aparna

​Adopting operational trends is seriously hurting culture at organizations that can't afford to lose trust.

​Yes, Amazon can afford to treat workers like interchangeable parts (for now). They have 1.5 million employees. You don't.

​This session is for leaders at small and mid-sized companies who are importing management playbooks designed for multi-nationals -- and are watching their culture quietly collapse as a result.

​We'll cover the trends that look like "operational excellence" on paper (and in un-extrapolate-able research by the likes of McKinsey) but are actually trust destroyers: stack ranking, hyper-surveillance, velocity metrics applied to knowledge workers.

​We'll also talk about what actually works -- the mandate for small and mid-sized organizations that compete on purpose-driven work, loyalty, and flexibility because they can't compete on reputation alone.

​You'll leave with:

• ​A short list of "enterprise" trends to audit out of your org now

• ​A framework for building operational rigor without operational cruelty

• ​Language to push back when a board member says "that's how the big guys do it"