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A Social Sanity Manifesto for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Our stress is compounded by each new performance metric that we're told to track and optimize, but social networking companies keep adding more, because they know each new target motivates us to do the job of growing their networks for them. That is not a world I want to live in ten years from now, or even in 2012. Of course not.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to Dick Clark

Strategy Driven

Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. Finding common ground about the zeal and joys inherent in running a company results in better buy-in and support of the goals. Progress is visioned, contextualized, seeded, benchmarked. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning.

Strategy Driven

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. by Hank Moore.

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An Unlikely Partnership: When HR and Marketing Join Forces

Harvard Business Review

But the pervasive influence of social media on the work world demands change in the way employers motivate and communicate with talent. Our first, in 2005, aimed to transform the way Xerox's HR staff connected with its workforce and align Xerox employees with new business goals.

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. PMI corporate culture identifies the need for employers to seek long-term achievements while proposing corporate goals and objectives. .