A sense of progress
I was listening this morning to an interesting HBR Ideacast where Daniel Pink was talking about the findings in his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. You know it’s good when you start trying to scribble down notes in a moving train! Anyway, a few of the key points I took [...]
Posted at 10:29 pm on March 22, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Books, People + Organisation | Tagged: drive, effectiveness, getting stuff done, incentives, motivation, sense of progress | read on
Profit ain’t everything
An interesting snippet caught my eye in the recent Harvard Business Review, in an article called ”Why Profit Shouldn’t Be Your Top Goal”… “…if a CEO’s primary focus is on profit maximization, employees develop negative feelings towards the organization. They tend to perceive the CEO as autocratic and focused on the short term, and they report [...]
Posted at 3:10 am on January 22, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: People + Organisation, Strategy | Tagged: HBR, motivation, profit, profit maximization, stakeholders, vision | read on
