Andrew Blum, CEO and Managing Partner of the Trium Group, a San Francisco-based strategy firm, has a rather unusual criteria when he makes an honest assessment of client companies.
"Are these organizations places where I'd want my kid to work? Usually the answer is no," Blum says. He's so intrigued by that question, incidentally, that he's currently working on a book titled: Building and Leading Organizations You'd Want Your Kids to Work At .
"These large organizations, by and large, are not full of satisfied and engaged people. They're full of stressed out people on the edge, full of anxiety, with limited ways to create impact they can be proud of," Blum says. "We're trying to change that. We want to make it easier for people to produce results they can be proud of, results aligned with the company's strategy."