R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

I discuss how we need to start broaching very big and difficult questions with organizational theory and strategy. We need to start looking at how we can use organizations to maximize human potential, so members feel completely self actualized by being part of that organization. This is a tall call for managers to not only do this, but also a challenge for organizational theorists to tackle.

It’s important to remember that if humility is critical to you framing your story. We often listen and hear about top performers in peoples feelings, but then we don’t recognize how people actually got to the top performance. We need to listen to the stories behind why people get to top performance.

I talk about how I deal with feeling anxious to work out the time. I talked about the balance of work with letting it go. It’s important to let go so that you can re-calibrate every week.

I talk about the game of academic publishing and research. Talk about how productivity is missing lying to what were actually talking about with academic publishing. There’s very much a game to academic publishing.

it’s important to practice reminding yourself that you’re a good person, and practice small things in your life that make you feel positive inside. Little things like smiling, laughing, and giving hugs really truly matter to how you feel and where are you actually go. Leadership is about doing unusual things, and you need to remind yourself that you’re not a bad person for doing those unusual things.

I talk about reinforcing dynamics and learning processes that lead to inequality within organizations. We have to be very careful with the systems that we have in recognize that there’s natural biases that will evolve because of learning processes.

I talk about how to predict the next big thing that we might encounter. Talk about things like the platform economy, and how institutions are changing based on algorithms within the economy. We have to be aware that in the next 20 years things will be a lot different than where they are right now. And, it’s gonna look like something that we couldn’t possibly imagine..

Rules for riches generally do not exist, and if they were they would be competed away very rapidly. You simply just have to keep working at it and that’s the only solution.

Productivity and measuring productivity is a false metric. I am come to realize that what people want with productivity is not necessarily how much you work, but the symbolism of proving your worth to the outside world. Its more about the institutionalization of how we understand productivity, than actually about improved performance.

I talk about how business school education is focused on the extremes and focused on making sure that only the best get the best education. We need to start focusing on how do we move the average or below average, and those lessons are a lot different than the lessons that you got for making the best you well.