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All massively successful companies, especially starting from scratch are very demanding. That's one of the reasons European companies have faltered while Chine

All massively successful companies, especially starting from scratch are very demanding. That's one of the reasons European companies have faltered while Chinese ones (or American) are expanding. Can do attitude and hard work, there's no magic recipe. Work/life balance, Friday afternoons off, leave office no later than 6pm, 4 day week, etc are all very nice but then if your competition work their asses off 6-7 days a week you're going to be eaten alive.

cangeroo 3y ago
It's a difficult problem: Work hard: The organization can become rife with politics and self-interested high-risk high-reward behaviors. People may stop collaborating, i.e. sharing knowledge, which can impede decision making, increase risk, and undermine innovation. Employees may only care about financial compensation, so it's easy for other companies to poach them, and indirectly steal insider information. Employees may burn-out causing resignations and interruptions to projects. That's why the alternative arose. Work/life balance: The organization is focused on productivity, not hardship. On sharing the work burden, on being able to trust your colleagues to come through. Meetings are short, direct, and no time is spent on fighting. Like an effective sports team, that passes the ball when appropriate. My perspective is that European companies are failing for other reasons. In particular, the US, both as a state, and their private actors, are actively undermining the European economies and industries, and corruption has become rampant, partly due to the enormous bribes that are possible by well-funded actors. All legal, of course, in the same way that Super PACs are unquestionably legal. Anyway, more to the point: I want to focus on the organizational culture aspect. Sometimes employees do get "lazy", or complacent. Isn't that a leadership problem? I'd love to hear your various ideas on how these problems can be solved.
- mytailorisrich 3y ago
  The issues and benefits you list are not specific to either "side". It feels a bit like you picked and chose through rose-tinted glasses when, really, everything you listed may happen in either case and are more symptoms of the quality of leadership. The US act in their own interests as they should and, I think, are ruthlessly pragmatic. Europe undermines itself because they are constantly shooting themselves in the foot, starting from their own governments.

cangeroo 3y ago

It's a difficult problem: Work hard: The organization can become rife with politics and self-interested high-risk high-reward behaviors. People may stop collaborating, i.e. sharing knowledge, which can impede decision making, increase risk, and undermine innovation. Employees may only care about financial compensation, so it's easy for other companies to poach them, and indirectly steal insider information. Employees may burn-out causing resignations and interruptions to projects. That's why the alternative arose. Work/life balance: The organization is focused on productivity, not hardship. On sharing the work burden, on being able to trust your colleagues to come through. Meetings are short, direct, and no time is spent on fighting. Like an effective sports team, that passes the ball when appropriate. My perspective is that European companies are failing for other reasons. In particular, the US, both as a state, and their private actors, are actively undermining the European economies and industries, and corruption has become rampant, partly due to the enormous bribes that are possible by well-funded actors. All legal, of course, in the same way that Super PACs are unquestionably legal. Anyway, more to the point: I want to focus on the organizational culture aspect. Sometimes employees do get "lazy", or complacent. Isn't that a leadership problem? I'd love to hear your various ideas on how these problems can be solved.

mytailorisrich 3y ago
The issues and benefits you list are not specific to either "side". It feels a bit like you picked and chose through rose-tinted glasses when, really, everything you listed may happen in either case and are more symptoms of the quality of leadership. The US act in their own interests as they should and, I think, are ruthlessly pragmatic. Europe undermines itself because they are constantly shooting themselves in the foot, starting from their own governments.