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Money is Not Always the Best Motivator
For so many years, I have talked about the power of incentives to motivate staff—especially monetary ones. However, more and more research is showing incentives do not work in all cases and can sometimes even produce the opposite effect.
Does Your Culture Promote or Prevent Inventive Thinking?
If they were being truly honest, how would your employees describe your culture? Would they say it is like Israel, America or North Korea?
8 Productivity-Boosting Tips for Prioritizing Your Work Day, Part 1
If you feel stuck, you may be able to get more revved up and accomplish more by pursuing some strategies to boost productivity and work smarter, not harder. Here are some essential ways to prioritize work, in order to move forward and break out of a rut.
Where Do Leaders Come From?
If you want to grow your business, you must grow your people. In the small and mid-sized companies that I work with, there is—not always, but more times than not—a sizable gap between the CEO and his or her direct reports. It’s not a skill gap. It’s a leadership gap.
Best Biz Tips from Buffett, Bezos, and Ben Franklin
The world’s top businesspeople didn’t accidentally fall into success. Here are some of the most valuable pieces of entrepreneurial wisdom from the world’s top entrepreneurs.
We’re All Going to Mess Up
No one is perfect, we make mistakes. Situations and circumstances change, making what we’ve done wrong. However well we may have planned, prepared, anticipated, something happens and we fail.
Do You Have a Plan for Your Small Business Future?
New findings released from a study conducted by Securian Financial Group show that many small business owners plan on leaving their companies within the next decade, but most do not have any type of exit plan or proper future outline for their entrepreneurial endeavors.
Kindness Does Matter in Business
Spontaneous kindness makes such an impact of customers and employees and we just cannot forget about the power of this concept. Another recent research poll showed that the the brand attribute that customers had found important (up by 391% over 3 years) was “kindness and empathy.”
How to See More Productive Smiles at Work
Most companies seem to have done a number of different employee surveys that have generated lots of data about what is wrong, and then they have done nothing with the data.
How Habits Lead to Organizational Efficiency
Whether you lay out detailed instructions for the daily duties of your employees or you prefer to take a more free-rein approach to management, it’s extremely important that your employees develop the right habits.
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