Engagement in the workplace is down. Here are a few ways great managers can turn their talents into practices while inspiring uncommon commitment and productivity along the way.
The average Goldman Sachs employee earns in excess of $350,000 per year, and we’re assured Greg Smith, who most visibly quit his job there last week, was paid substantially more. And, in leaving his long-time employer, Smith didn’t abandon just a fat salary. To regain his career freedom, he knowingly forfeited a considerable sum in […]
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the […]
Author Emily Esfahani Smith explains why the pursuit of happiness backfires–and what we can do about it in the jobs we already have. For as long as human beings have existed, they’ve yearned to know what makes life worth living. Plato described man as a “being in search of meaning,” and the first great work […]
Worker happiness has fallen every year for the last 25 years–in good economic times and bad. Today, over half of American workers effectively hate their jobs. Once the economy picks up, that could mean a mass exodus from your ranks, unless you take action now. A friend of mine resigned his long-time bank management job […]
If you think your brain makes you a great leader, you better check your head. According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction in America has been on a steep and steady decline for an entire generation. The century-old research organization reported this summer that more than half of all US employees are unhappy in their […]
In the late 19th Century, British historian, Lord Acton, famously asserted that “power corrupts.” And we surely needn’t look too deeply within business, politics and every day life to find examples that validate this timeless truth. But new research from U.C. Berkeley social scientist, Dacher Keltner, confirms something few of us may ever have personally […]
What’s to become of the traditional work office? Is it possible that communications tools like Skype, Zoom.us and Google Hangouts will have the effect of making communal office spaces obsolete? Is the day coming when organizations will redeploy workers to home offices – where they’ll have no commute, and the freedom to work all day in play […]
When Wharton Business School professor Richard Shell was faced with a life-threatening illness, he was forced to think about the big picture. What was success to him? Since then, Shell has dedicated his life to helping folks find true meaning in their own lives and work. If one advances confidently in the direction of his […]
The Internet turned 27 about 7 months ago, a milepost that commemorates the day Tim Berners-Lee proposed the creation of a new kind of “information management system,” and forever changed how we live and work. That the Internet has enabled profound personal and organizational productivity gains since its launch is patently irrefutable. But at the same […]
These authors aren’t fortune-tellers, but their works can shed light on the future of leaders and workplaces. Our long-enduring resistance to bringing the heart into workplace management dates as far back as the industrial revolution. Traditional leadership theory espouses that workers should be treated like any other input: squeeze as much out of them as […]
Introduction: Through a series of fascinating studies, Harvard-trained social scientists, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, have shown that human beings are profoundly influenced by the behavior of the people closest to them in their lives. When we learn a colleague has voted, for example, we’re far more likely to vote ourselves. When someone in our […]
Research reveals that companies consistently choose the wrong people for management roles. Here’s what you can do to avoid the same mistake. Have you ever quit a job just to get away from a bad boss? If you have, it turns out you’re in sizable company. According to a April 2015 Gallup study, one in […]
Early one morning just a few weeks ago, I woke up with the intention of starting my day at the gym. But before I ever made it out of the house, I completely blacked out, fell on a cold travertine floor and broke my ribs. The pain from that fall was excruciating; and it immediately […]
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” ~ John Maynard Keynes Our common and traditional approach to leadership hasn’t significantly evolved since the dawn of the industrial age. When it comes to managing people in a work environment, we’ve always treated workers like any other input: squeeze […]
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~ Schopenhauer It’s been nearly a year since Gallup announced its stunning finding that engagement in the American workplace had fallen to crisis levels. In what became the shot heard ‘round the world in business, the research firm […]
Winning Your Employees Over To Stick With The Company Long Term Involves An Array Of Factors—But First Among Those Is Love. What are the real drivers of human engagement in the workplace? What are those things that consistently inspire people to fully commit themselves in their jobs and to willingly scale mountains for their bosses […]
Leaders finally realize the importance of a fully engaged workforce. Now they should learn what practices drive and sustain happy employees. Finally, leaders are now convinced one of their last remaining competitive advantages lies with their people. Businesses have begun to signal to workers that their needs will now be honored on a scale only […]
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