Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 9, 2015

James Taylor, who claimed the secret was “ enjoying the passage of time “). This elementary part of humanity is a powerful motivator, and most of the time you don’t even realize it. You could see the high energy on the screen, and feel it in the music. I realize many other very smart people have taken a crack at this one.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Taylorism Taylor 150

Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. Goal-setting research tells us that feedback is necessary for any goal setting to motivate performance. If you want to improve, seek out feedback from others, listen to what they say and take action. It’s the fuel that gets you going in the morning.

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Blanchard Ethics Taylorism Taylor 145

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

You have incredibly knowledgeable and highly motivated consultants at your beck and call. Just remember… Talk may be cheap, but it’s also priceless when it comes to building camaraderie, respect, energy – and yes, even love – throughout your workplace, in both good times and bad.

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

David Lewis Taylor/Getty Images. Is it OK if someone you are managing doesn’t seem motivated to take on a new assignment or build new skills? Is it OK if someone you are managing doesn’t seem motivated to take on a new assignment or build new skills? Motivating People. You and Your Team Series. Kerry Jones.

Learning Curve 14

Learning Curve Ryan Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The question of how to motivate people in organizations has been of interest to scholars and practitioners since the time of Frederick Taylor. By this I mean that supervisor development focuses more on building technical skills than on building the higher level capabilities needed to motivate and engage people.

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Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

“Once the deal closed,” shared Enterprise CEO Andrew Taylor, “Enterprise pursued a deliberate integration. Trust is diluted further when, in an attempt to keep people motivated, early communications sometimes state that “nothing will change,” and yet employees see change happening as people are let go.

Company 9

Company Direct Marketing Execution Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2015

What we didn’t know was how we’d pay the medical bills, or how much energy Jim would have for parenting. Jim would spend his days reading motivational books from Tony Robbins and Oprah or watching TED talks, like Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight , about the impacts of brain trauma.

Open-book 8

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Successful change leaders, on the other hand, are open, bold, and have a clear sense of their motivations.

Middle Management 14

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

In the 1980’s, psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelly Taylor were looking for a way to describe what research was showing to be a ubiquitous tendency among humans: to think only as much as they feel they need to, and no more. Go fast, and you make mistakes. Be thorough and diligent, and you take an eternity.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Information Definition Positioning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance. Yet embedded in this tradition is the assumption that improving worker productivity is something done by an outsider observer (manager or consultant like Taylor). Auto-analytics can help foster personal CSR and sustainability measurement.

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Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. When more efficient machines use less energy, they cost less, which often encourages us to use them more—resulting in a net increase in energy consumption. Wikipedia is produced and maintained by a community of dispersed enthusiasts primarily driven by other motives than profit maximization.

Technology 8

Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8