For the Collins submarine computerization effort,
People would have known to ask themselves:
1/- What makes our business unique ?
(if we don't know what differentiates our business from others, we won't have a basis for making decisions and we'll be trying to be all things to all people)
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by N Bayram - 2009 - Related articles - All 3 versionsStress and the Preventive Management of Workplace. Violence. In: Griffin, R., O'Leary-Kelly, A. and Collins, J.M.. (eds), Dysfunctional Behavior in
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2/-What is our business's top priority right now ?
(We need to know what the single most important objective is for our business over the next 2 to 6 months. Without a priority, everything becomes important and you end up reacting to whatever issues seem urgent on the day.)
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While most discussions of incivility in the workplace focus exclusively on 2004), dysfunctional work behaviors (Griffin, O'Leary-Kelly, & Collins,
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File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTMLAggressive reactions to workplace injustice. In R.W. Griffin, A.M. O'Leary-Kelly, & J.M. Collins (Eds.), Dysfunctional behavior in organizations.
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3/-How do you talk and use the answers to these questions ?
(If you answer the first two questions but don't use those answers in daily, weekly and monthly decision-making, it will yield no benefits).
Yet the Sunday newspaper used to plaster their placards with presumably inside info ridiculing the project.
So it looks like (1),(2),(3) above, which everyone knew they should be doing, wasn't ensuring success.
Doing is not saying or publishing but being, including being the three ways you mentioned. If not, it becomes dysfunctional.
Nope!
1. I don't know..
2. I'm afraid I can be a bit clueless from time to time.
3. In much the same way as humans actually.
is this really a genuine question seeking a real answer, because i'm not seeing it.
 Where was the last debate on wednesday with Mccain and Obama?
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Was Collins workplace dysfunctional ?