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Strictly authoritarian, hierarchical and punitive business cultures can be both highly harmful to employee wellbeing and productivity and also self-destructive to our organisation's internal stability and bottom line. If we don't ever provide our skilled and experienced staff the opportunity to dissent with our senior management decision making, as organisations and as human beings we can miss out on some huge positive wins such as:
- Understanding different points of view on a decision informed by a diverse range of past work experiences which might help you make better choices
- Avoiding all sorts of unanticipated problems from small ball drops to major disasters in a project execution or day to day operations by learning more from the people who work at your coal face
- Retaining, building trusting relationships with and really harnessing the best possible performance in our teams by treating our employees as whole people and respecting their wellbeing, wisdom and healthy boundaries
If you aren't there to really listen and adjust when workers tell you there are serious problems with the way things are being managed, that they are overworked, or underresourced, or need a little time off to recover from mild to serious injury or for personal reasons, or don't give them opportunities to help contribute to your strategy and innovation through offering dissenting perspectives, you risk missing out on valuable wisdom and building and nurturing the relationships that protect your organisation's best asset - a dedicated, skilled and productive workforce.
Like the esteemed political commentator and leadership expert Doris Kearns Goodwin says:
"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."
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