Why dialogue between management and workers is crucial for innovation


Check out this great read by Paul Downs about the common problematic disconnect between floor-level employees and upper level management. In it, Downs discusses the issue of wishing his team would think about efficient solutions to productivity-slowing problems, but his workers wouldn’t have a clue as to which problems needed solving from a management perspective. Downs argues that to get results, business leaders need to clearly outline their desires.
Full story at The New York Times.