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DNA Wales Insights

| Newsworthy Articles | DNA Snap Shots | DNA Reports | DNA Presentations 

DNA Wales Insights are bite size pieces of information and key learnings that provide us with 'insight' into the natural systems within which we live and work. These insights are presented in a variety of formats from online articles we have stumbled across, snap-shot guides we have compiled, industry reports we have written or presentations and podcasts we have delivered. There is bound to be something for everyone.


Newsworthy Articles




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Nucor Steel: Making Everyone A Decision Maker
The Nucor Culture can be summarized in five areas: decentralized management philosophy, performance based compensation, egalitarian benefits, customer service and quality, and technological leadership. Underlying these elements is the fact that none of Nucor's plants, whether built from scratch or acquired, are unionized.

Egalitarian Benefits
Nucor's senior officers are not provided traditional "perks" such as company cars, executive parking spaces, or executive dining rooms. In fact, several programs (such as Nucor's Profit Sharing, Scholarship Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Extraordinary Bonus, and Service Awards Program) are not available to Nucor's officers but only to lower-level employees. As a symbol of Nucor's egalitarian culture, the annual report has the names of every employee printed on the cover. In August of 2006, the company did purchase a corporate jet for use by senior management. In a letter to all employees from the CEO, Dan DiMicco explained that the frequent rentals of charter jets made a corporate jet purchase a cost-effective measure.[Source: Wikipedia] 

Find out more about Nucor Steel by reading their stories.

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W.L Gore & Associates: Democracy in the Workplace
A leading and successful company shows how a nonhierarchical environment built on freedom and trust allows creative minds to flourish. Read more about the corporate culture at W. L. Gore & Associates.

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Ricardo Semler: Set Them Free!
Ricardo Semler, Chairman of Semco and perhaps the most radically successful business man in the world, turns upside down all traditional management theory and uses common sense and simplicity. "We’ve taken a company that was moribund and made it thrive, chiefly by refusing to squander our greatest resource, our people. “ Semler.

Blog it! Visit our Dr Blog to watch an Interview with Semler and share your thoughts on 'Democratic Leadership in Wales' 

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Penguins & Complex Adaptive Systems
An interesting article on how we can learn from Penguins on self-organisation, team leadership and effective communication.

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DNA Reports


2006 Waterton Management Challenge (WMC) Report
An interactive Q&A session was used at the first Waterton Management Challenge (WMC) in 2006 to help draw insights about management, manufacturing and the Welsh economy in the 21st Century.

Key DNA Wales insights derived from this interactive survey concerned the key elements of sustainability, leadership, uncertainity & risk, trust, managerial myths, adaptability, fun, skills and values. These presented in the report.

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DNA Presentations


Sustainable Innovation in Wales Conference 2007 (Sorry, this presentation is temporarily unavaliable). 
Presenter: Dr. Paul T. Thomas (Glamorgan Business School & DNA Wales)
Organised by Wales Quality Centre with support from DNA Wales

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Aerospace Skills for Sustainability Conference 2007
Presenter: Dr. Paul T. Thomas (Glamorgan Business School & DNA Wales)
Organised by the Aerospace Wales Forum and supported by DNA Wales, The Society for British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) and Glamorgan University’s Faculty of Advanced Technology

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Exploring Nature's Toolbox: Waterton Management Challenge 2007
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth McMillian (Open University & DNA Wales)
Organised by Waterton Centre with support from DNA Wales

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DNA Snapshots

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