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Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition

QAspire

This year, I review three blogs that I have loved reading. I reviewed Seth’s blog last year as well apart from doing “one-question interview and review” for his books “ Linchpin ” and “ Poke the Box ”. However, her blog focuses on topics that relate to the workplace, not just human resources. Seth Godin’s Blog.

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Is It Time For A Peer-Reviewed Bonus System?

LDRLB

The odd-jobs start-up, Coffee & Power, distributed each of its 15 employees 1,200 stock options at the beginning of 2012 and encouraged them to distribute them among co-workers in whatever ways they saw fit. An employee could give all her options to one co-worker, or divide it among a group of co-workers they believe really hustled.

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. Britain is well ahead of schedule.

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Change Your Company with Better HR Analytics

Harvard Business Review

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it? Human resources'

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. NEWS, January 2012. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Two Kansas City Star Reporters Told to Choose Who Gets Sacked NBCNews.com, December 2012. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. Participants from all backgrounds gain key team building skills through collaborating closely at every stage of ideation, innovation, deployment, evaluation and scaling.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Their reasoning: Five years from now, successful companies will increasingly employ innovative business models that no one currently thinks are feasible.