Discovering
Competence:
The Key To Revitalizing Your Organization's Knowledge Base
By Thomas Fee
Paul Volker said, "Productivity growth is…there's a big
question about the numbers. If you believe the numbers, it is 1
percent a year, when it used to be 2.5 percent a year. This suggests
there's a lot of spinning of the wheels with all these computers."
Why is productivity down in the best economy in centuries? The
answer is "Corporatism" - the practice of allowing organizational
culture and politics to diminish the contribution of competent workers.
Competency is no longer the primary consideration for promotion,
recognition or rewards in organizations. They are much more concerned
with persons "fit", a practice which is destroying individual
initiative and has created an era of survival in place of achievement
for today's knowledge worker. The new glass ceiling is the organization's
"culture".
Discovering Competence takes on this problem and suggests that
organizations turn to the "Professional Development Model"
for help. This model for improving individual productivity and organizational
performance requires honest self-appraisal, dedication to competence
and a return to recognition for the contribution of value.
Organizations who do not address the problems inherent in Corporatism
will not survive in the new age of virtuality. They will fall victim
to acquisition, mergers and failure to achieve their objectives,
leaving in their wake a generation of dissatisfied workers.
Discovering Competence is a guide for organizations to return to
best practices and the recognition that workers, not technology,
are their "knowledge base". Human beings enable companies
to succeed and prosper - not culture or technology.
Discovering Competence has something for everybody who is interested
in individual and organizational success. It is a guide for re-establishing
competence as the primary element of insuring success in the 21st
Century - the century of knowledge and competence
Available online at www.procentral.com. Click here to order.
About the Author: Thomas Fee, founder and former CEO and President of Performance
Management Consultants™, 235 South Ivy Street, Denver, CO 80224.
303-333-7515. info@procentral.com.
Website: www.procentral.com. PMC
is a practice specializing in field sales force performance management.
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