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What Motivates: Gold, Glory, or God?

August 23, 2010

Motivation comes in many forms, and knowing what motivates the people you work with can make all the difference from “has done” to “has been.” Pay, or as the HR people like to say, compensation, has turned out not to be the end-all-be-all for motivational purposes. As Dan Pink has ably exposed in his latest [...]

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You Are Your Message: How to Speak / Present Well in Public

May 2, 2010

Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” and advanced a number of prophetic ideas – all from the vantage of the 1960′s. McLuhan’s thoughts apply to you - including predicting the over extension of technology, and the intensification of the world community to its present expression as a “global village.” McLuhan’s quip regarding [...]

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[Palm's Employee Retention Handcuffs] Can They Stop the Exit Hemorrhaging?

April 25, 2010

Palm, the maker of mobile products, is losing talent. Tech journalist Kara Swisher has commented that Palm is a company with nine lives. This, by my count, is number ten. Michael Abbott, SVP of Software, and Caitlin Spaan, VP of Carrier Marketing, have both left Palm. Abbott landed at Twitter. SEC filings indicate that CFO [...]

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[Scott Berkun] How “Trying” Improves Your Performance

December 10, 2009

Readers of this blog know that the body of emerging research by people like Carol Dweck from Stanford or Angela Duckworth at the University of Pennsylvannia show that trying, self discipline, and constant learning – rather than simply going to the right schools, having a high IQ, or having the right credentials – is what [...]

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The End of “High Potential” Employees: What Does It Mean for You?

November 10, 2009

My doctor Michael Sdao practices what he terms “evidence-based” medicine: he puts his faith primarily in approaches and procedures that have been validated by substantiated research. While it’s not necessarily the most daring of approaches,  in the main the outcomes (knock on wood) have been pretty good. Organizations, on the other hand, are pretty hit [...]

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[Trick or Treat] The Trouble with Incentives

October 20, 2009

As a senior at Tigard High School, the Prom Queen was selected by a canned food competition between the three high school classes. The goal was to incent students to both show school spirit and bring in canned foods for people who were less fortunate and needed the food to eat to live. Both competitive [...]

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