Out-Behave to Outperform

“Dov’s big idea is that companies that “out-behave” their competition will also outperform them. He identified a value-driven model, the “self-governing organization,” a place where long-term legacy trumps the next quarter’s ROI. These organizations don’t merely engage their workers. They inspire them. They replace rules with shared principles; carrots and sticks are supplanted by a common sense of purpose. They are built around trust, which enables risk taking, which spurs innovation, which drives performance and productivity.”

“When Dov told me there was no more powerful cultural force than “active transparency,” where “human beings are opening up, sharing the truth, bringing others in, being vulnerable,””