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Energize or Enervate: Recognition Practices That Turn People Off or On

The Practical Leader

too often managers point out what’s wrong while failing to recognize what’s right. Some managers realize the need for positive reinforcement and try to provide some sort of recognition. It’s lazy leadership and cynical coercion. Brains follow hearts to where they’re valued. Make promotions a reward.

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How to Write Thank You Emails to Coworkers

HR Digest

Do no meander on; it is a letter of gratitude and appreciation, not an explanatory note. If possible, if it is work-related, you can cc the letter to his or her superior to show their empathetic nature. As a result, we were able to finish the project way before the deadline, which qualified us for great incentives.

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What We Can Learn About Leadership from the - Next Level Blog

Next Level Blog

Through multiple acts of leadership they have organized themselves to take care of their bodies, minds and spirits. Here’s some of what we can learn from the miners: Leaders share the role:   You might assume that the miners’ shift supervisor would take over the sole leadership role. Today was not one of those days.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. That is the question.

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business Review

But sales managers also have to take some blame. Use smarter financial incentives. Perhaps you could study the prospect’s S-1 and their CEO’s letter to shareholders to develop an ROI proposition that is uniquely of interest to them. On which weeks and days do the largest deals tend to land?

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Zipcar Doesn’t Just Ask Employees to Innovate — It Shows Them How

Harvard Business Review

A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones. Employees were invited to a meeting where leadership discussed its mobile business imperative.