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Surviving Workplace Zombies Paul Glen, Leading Geeks
Enter at your own risk!
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Surviving Workplace Zombies
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Poll: What’s your zombie problem?
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What are workplace zombies?
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Zombies are not simply demotivated people.
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Demotivated people
Demotivated • Listless • Apathetic • Indifferent to outcomes • Not creative • Unambitious
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The Scale of Motivation H
ighly Motivated
Passively Dem
otivated
Norm
ally Motivated
Zombie
High
Low
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Demotivated person v. zombie
Demotivated • Listless • Apathetic • Indifferent to outcomes • Not creative • Unambitious
Zombies • Plodding but persistent • Single minded • Motivated to infect others • Not creative • Unambitious
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Zombies are contagiously demotivated people, highly
motivated to infect others with their demotivation.
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How does the infection start and spread?
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How do people get demotivated?
• Non-work induced – Personal life events – Physical and mental health issues
• Workplace conditions and/or behaviors lead people to feel: – Personally unimportant – That their work is unimportant – Helpless to succeed – Untrusted – Disrespected – Out of control
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Emotions are contagious.
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People feel better about their own emotions when they share them.
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Zombies want you to make them feel better about their negativity.
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Your negativity validates theirs.
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Spreading (de)motivation High
Low
Peak Performance
Highly M
otivated
Passively D
emotivated
Norm
ally Motivated
Zombie
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I do have zombies! What should I do!?
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Save them?
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Strategy 1: Save yourself!
• Run away! • Hide • Recruit human
shields
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Strategy 2: Save the survivors
• Kill them all • Isolate them • Build a
fortress
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Rule #1
Never surrender
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Rule #2
Don’t try to reason with zombies.
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Rule #3 Have empathy
for the person but not the condition.
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Rule #4 Don’t let zombies set the agenda.
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4 different zombie cases
• Your boss • Your peers • Your business stakeholders • You
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Help! My boss is a zombie!
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Save yourself!
• RUN!!! • Stay focused on
what you want to accomplish
• Be prepared to run away!
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Save the survivors
• Stampede (Everyone RUN … at once!) • Lead from below • Communicate your will
– What you want to accomplish – What matters to you
• Insulate your team • Be prepared to stampede
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Help! My teammates are zombies!
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Save yourself!
• RUN!!! • Stay focused on the team goal • Hide • Be prepared
to run away!
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Save the survivors
• Lead by openly stating what you are committed to
• If zombies are a minority – Try to eject the zombie minority – Isolate zombies
• If zombies are a majority – RUN!!! – Convince your boss/sponsor to intervene
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Help! My business stakeholders are
zombies!
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Save yourself!
• RUN!!! • Work on something
else • Remind them of
what you are committed to
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Save the survivors
• Use non-zombie stakeholders to manage zombies
• Distract them with bait – Something attractive to pursue – Something noxious to fight
• Convince their superiors to intervene
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Help! I’m becoming a zombie!
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What you can do
• RUN!!! • Never surrender
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Paul Glen, Founder, Geek. As the award-winning author of the book Leading Geeks, a long-time columnist for Computerworld and a 25-year IT veteran, Paul helps concrete thinkers navigate the murky world of human relationships. [email protected]
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