John Hagel on Employees with Passion
John Hagel of Deloitte spoke to me after his opening plenary on day 2 of Supernova about his research on the Shift Index which “highlighted a core performance challenge …: return on assets for U.S. companies has steadily fallen to almost one quarter of 1965 levels at the same time that we have seen…modest, improvements in labor productivity.”
John and his team interviewed employees about many factors during their research, and in our talk he discussed employee passion for work as a key indicator of company performance. He also mentioned in his talk a recommendation to reach out to the “smartest people in your industry” and figure out how to collaborate, and we discuss this further as well.
You can see the longer panel John Hagel did with John Seely Brown at the Supernova Mixer this summer, as well as a one-on-one interview with John and Kevin Werbach.
