Wharton Business School Professor and author Adam Grant (“Think Again”) offers an important insight around company culture. “A company isn’t a family. Parents don’t fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times. A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.”
We need to create companies where, as one Vistage speaker once told me, “People come to live their lives.” But the family model may not be the best way to do this. This brief article by organizational psychologist David Burkus published in Ideas.TED.com may help you understand “Why a company is not a family- and how companies can bond with their employees instead.”
