http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/ Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Eric Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:39:49 +0000 http://episteme.ca/?p=563#comment-1877 My experience is exactly the opposite-- the more turnover you have, the less likely you are to succeed. If people are jumping ship at this rate you have a management problem, and perhaps staff issues to boot. The idea that you have to get your innovation from outside your group points directly to your problem. Innovation comes from keeping your staff up to date in current practices, having a flexible and adaptable team structure (keep mixing things up), and from simply *expecting* creativity. If you're dumping a significant percentage of your staff every year, you're wasting resources constantly retraining the latest suckers (do you tell people you hire they're not going to be around long?), you'll be very unlikely to be able to carry out long-term projects with any consistency, and you're blaming your employees for your own inability to keep innovation going. Trying to attain innovation through turnover is just lazy management. My experience is exactly the opposite– the more turnover you have, the less likely you are to succeed. If people are jumping ship at this rate you have a management problem, and perhaps staff issues to boot. The idea that you have to get your innovation from outside your group points directly to your problem. Innovation comes from keeping your staff up to date in current practices, having a flexible and adaptable team structure (keep mixing things up), and from simply *expecting* creativity. If you’re dumping a significant percentage of your staff every year, you’re wasting resources constantly retraining the latest suckers (do you tell people you hire they’re not going to be around long?), you’ll be very unlikely to be able to carry out long-term projects with any consistency, and you’re blaming your employees for your own inability to keep innovation going. Trying to attain innovation through turnover is just lazy management.

]]> http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-1787 Dan Erwin Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:56:55 +0000 http://episteme.ca/?p=563#comment-1787 You couldn't be more right. All the research says exactly what you're saying. Studies show that keeping the same team in place results in groupthink, lack of creativity, conflict avoidance, etc. You can execute more rapidly with a tight, closely knit team than with a new team, but the ideas will often lack the quality from a new team. You couldn’t be more right. All the research says exactly what you’re saying. Studies show that keeping the same team in place results in groupthink, lack of creativity, conflict avoidance, etc. You can execute more rapidly with a tight, closely knit team than with a new team, but the ideas will often lack the quality from a new team.

]]> http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-1771 Linda Ferguson Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:57:18 +0000 http://episteme.ca/?p=563#comment-1771 Innovativeness? Mike - creative language is creative but innovativeness is not an innovative word. And relationships that last more than ten minutes do not necessarily go stale - whether they are couples or teams. Change for the sake of change often looks like innovation when it really just creates a lot of activity without a lot of productivity. Let's dig deeper for the model of what is really making the difference between churn and innovation. Innovativeness? Mike – creative language is creative but innovativeness is not an innovative word. And relationships that last more than ten minutes do not necessarily go stale – whether they are couples or teams. Change for the sake of change often looks like innovation when it really just creates a lot of activity without a lot of productivity. Let’s dig deeper for the model of what is really making the difference between churn and innovation.

]]> http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Scott Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:27:49 +0000 http://episteme.ca/?p=563#comment-1767 The military clearly believes this as do most serious management-training programs. I hypothesize that the inverse is also true, though -- that if the rate of change inside the organization is greater than the rate of change outside than the end is near. In other words, it is possible to turnover too much, as in so many things, balance is the key. The military clearly believes this as do most serious management-training programs. I hypothesize that the inverse is also true, though — that if the rate of change inside the organization is greater than the rate of change outside than the end is near. In other words, it is possible to turnover too much, as in so many things, balance is the key.

]]> http://episteme.ca/2008/12/08/the-importance-of-turnover/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Glen Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:41:04 +0000 http://episteme.ca/?p=563#comment-1763 Interesting. I wonder if government jobs would also be subject to this idea. Interesting. I wonder if government jobs would also be subject to this idea.

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