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The Four Vs of Employee Motivation: Velocity, Visibility, Value, and Valor

Strategy Driven

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. The study showed a 27 percent performance increase when an incentive was offered for persistence toward a company goal.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. Occasionally, a brother would get voted out of the chapter after a period of excessive absenteeism.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Educate and Motivate Others.

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