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Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful

You're Not the Boss of Me

Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → September 6, 2010 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful Labour Day weekend always feels to me like a harbinger of renewal. If we do know, what do we need to do to keep, or earn, their loyalty and optimal contribution?

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

Revered brands such as Apple or Disney understand that enchantment leads to attachment, not just loyalty, with their customers. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. Insight Center.

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Why Can’t We Stop Working?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert has shown that children don’t increase parents’ short-term happiness ; in fact, on a day-to-day basis, parents prefer almost anything (from watching television to exercising) to spending time with their kids. Grappling with divided loyalties can be challenging. “It

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

The result was a city governing class clueless about and to a certain extent disdainful of economic reality and a regional economic elite with few ties and little loyalty to the region''s main city. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert.