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I`d like to hear from others about building corporate culture and focusing on results versus hours with employees. I`ve run several successful companies from $500,000 a year in revenue to $50 million with good success focusing on results versus hours and I`d like to hear from others about this type of company culture.

Also, is anyone familiar with www.culturerx.com? The company spun out of Best Buy who have adopted these methods throughout much of their organization. I`m looking for a list of the 13 commandments from this method. Does anyone have this information?

Here is a great article on on R.O.W.E.

Here is an example of a few of the commandments:

No.1: People at all levels stop doing any activity that is a waste of their time, the customer’s time, or the company’s money.

No.7: Nobody talks about how many hours they work.

No.9: It’s O.K. to take a nap on a Tuesday afternoon, grocery shop on Wednesday morning, or catch a movie on Thursday afternoon.

I`m curious about this: is it some "new" form of enterprise culture? I`m thinking about it from a life of rarely working in corporate environments, other than peripherally, and always "offering" my work in exchange for money. I never have seen a job as something forced, or that I can`t just leave if I don`t like it.

I realize that`s not the usual way to spend time in the workaday world, but the things you`ve mentioned above all seem obvious to me. So I`m wondering if they`re not so routine?

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Michelle
President, Arrington Management Services
www.arringtonmanagementservices.com