Smell of the Workplace – Wonderful Metaphor to Understand the Context of Performance
In a World Economic Forum talk, Professor Sumantra Ghosal – the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad – talked about the “Smell of the Workplace” as a metaphor to describe the need for creating a new context that enables employees to change their mindset from that of Constraint, Compliance, Control and Contract to that of Stretch, Discipline, Trust and Support.