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What Is a Results-Only Work Environment?: A new management philosophy declares that giving employees complete control over their time is the best way to increase productivity in the workplace. How It Works As Ressler and Thompson put it in their book, “In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do...; Tags: Team, Best Buy Co. Inc., Employee, Environment, Management Philosophy, ROWE, Team Management, Management, Lindsay Blakely, Results-Only Work Environment, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, Best Buy, BNET Briefing; Articles 2008-09-25
How to Get Results From Your Team: Ten tips from the creators of the Results-Only Work Environment, from their book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It. 1. Make meetings optional. Let people evaluate their need to participate. If they know they can make better use of ...; Tags: Team, Employee, Performance, Performance Management, E-mail, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Management, Results-Oriented Work Environment, ROWE, Best Buy, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, Corporate Culture, Workplace Management, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, authors of Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It; Articles 2008-09-26
Blowing Up Business As Usual: At some companies, employees skip meetings, set their own schedules, and take unlimited vacation time. Surprise: They also get more done.There's no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of...; Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Balanced Scorecard, Performance Management, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Intelligence, Team Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Results-Only Work Environment, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, Productivity, Organizational Management, Best Buy, Google, General Electric, Semco, Corporate Culture, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2008-09-26

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How Best Buy Slays the Turnover Beast: Turnover at Best Buy fell eight percentage points to 60 percent last year, according to the company's recent earnings call. "The improvements in turnover were nationwide and at all levels ... and the most encouraging aspect of this progress is that these results came from specific, locally created strategies," said...; Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Turnover, Retail, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Lisa Everitt; Blog posts 2008-04-16
"No Orders, No Secrets, No Big Shots": Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson call it the "results-only work environment ROWE", where employees can do "whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done." In the UK, businessman and author John Timpson calls it "upside down management",...; Tags: Timpson, Area Manager, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-10-01