Organizations have a nasty habit of acquiring blockages that impede progress and stymie performance. Companies must regularly embark on search-and-destroy missions to root out barriers and obliterate them. But these barriers can be difficult to find because they morph into familiar forms and hide in plain site. But if you look carefully can spot them as:
- EXCUSES -- when you start hearing excuses for why things can't change, you are in the presence of a blockage.
- FEAR -- when people get scared, they freeze and plug up everything they are involved in.
- SECRETS -- a sure sign of a dysfunctional organization.
- INSECURITY -- when people are in over their head they know it and their main purpose in life becomes trying to make sure other people don't figure it out.
- POSTURING -- when people fixate on their image you are in the presence of a blockage.
- ROUTINES -- doing things the same way for too long creates "comfort zones" which are places where fearful, insecure, posturing people go to avoid detection.
What does any of this have to do with the Perfect Pay Plan? Plenty. The Perfect Pay Plan cannot exist in a dysfunctional organization. Pay plans do not create healthy organizations -- they thrive in them. The Perfect Pay Plan requires the right environment to incubate and flourish. Such environments are characterized by:
- Strong, enlightened, progressive, free-thinking, open-minded LEADERSHIP.
- An appreciation of the value and importance of SETTING AND ACHIEVING GOALS.
- An atmosphere of HIGH-ACHIEVEMENT where good enough is not good enough.
- FULL DISCLOSURE and a willingness to share virtually all information.
- Employees who understand WHAT IS EXPECTED from them and WHAT THEY WILL GAIN when they achieve it.
- A sense of TEAMWORK where everyone believes they are working for the benefit of all, not enriching the few.
- The ability to EMBRACE CHANGE and LEARN FROM MISTAKES.
- The capacity to GET THINGS DONE.
In such organizations, the Perfect Pay Plan functions like after-burners on a jet fighter -- it rockets the organization to new heights.
But how many organizations truly posses these attributes. Precious few. Have we then effectively disqualified most organizations from ever having the Perfect Pay Plan? Absolutely not. But we have uncovered one of the major reasons why so few companies have them. The first step in creating the Perfect Pay Plan is creating the right conditions for it to exist. Life on earth didn't emerge until there was an oxygen-rich atmosphere. The Renaissance couldn't happen until dogma gave way to enlightened thought. And the Perfect Pay Program can't exist in an organization that is plugged with barriers. This is where the enema comes in.
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