Are you giving your business air?
"Businesses take care to get the right value on the balance sheet for their assets, when they are useless without ideas and people. Ideas and … Read more
employee engagement
Who do you really work for?
Who do you really, really work for? (Sung to the tune of "what do you really, really want?") This may seem like a strange question, … Read more
Recognising the Investment of Years
Businesses owe their employees – the investors of years – the same consideration that they owe their investors of capital. Discuss! However, before you do, … Read more
Will Your Principles Stand the Test of Time?
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result not a strategy… your main constituencies … Read more
The Better Way to Manage People in a Downturn!
Eureka! Somebody else out there agrees that it is sheer lunacy to be laying off people at the rate at which business is currently doing. … Read more
Where Does Customer Service Begin?
In a recent blog Anna Farmery questions whether companies that claim to treat their employees like customers have it completely the wrong way round. While … Read more
What do we know about people performance?
"If a company were as ill-informed about its capital performance as most companies are about their employee performance, it would be in serious trouble with the … Read more
Putting a New Perspective on Productivity
Is it possible that productivity is over-emphasised in the modern workplace? Have we reached the point where the focus on productivity is counter-productive? It is … Read more
Employee Engagement & Personal Responsibility
Distilled to its most basic, an employment contract is, in essence, an agreement:1. Between an individual and an organisation that the individual will fulfil certain duties … Read more
Maslow, Happiness, Employee Engagement & Value
“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with … Read more