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Organizational Synergy through Empowerment and Teamwork

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Synergy. That is a word that may not seem to be as popular or prolific as it once was. Yet that doesn’t make it any … Read more

The New Need to Build a Better Business Model

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You couldn’t have made it up! In a world where the excesses of business have fuelled strong – sometimes violent – protests against capitalism and … Read more

Why you, unwittingly, may be just going through the motions

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If you want to change this and turn things around to fully engage employees and optimise their effectiveness you have to find a way of changing the employee’s relation to their work. This essentially means that you have to create an environment where your employee is not working to “make someone else’s goals come true.” The only way you can do that is to create an environment of shared goals, where your goals and the employee’s correspond. That is the necessity. You have to ‘make your business their business’ – there simply is no other way to resolve this fundamental problem.

The Case for Employee Engagement

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Sometimes it is easier to define something by describing its opposite. Perhaps that applies to Employee Engagement too. Maybe it is easier to depict employee … Read more

Does it have any real value?

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You do not have to be over 21 to have experienced it. Nonetheless, the likelihood is that if you are over 21 you almost certainly … Read more

37 years to go?

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I was shocked this week by an email quoting research by British sociologist David Halperin that only 29% of British people believed that others can … Read more

Will RISES prevent a fall?

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After writing about values for the past few weeks, it seems only appropriate to pause to consider the new values-based direction that Barclays Bank is … Read more

The Joy of Satisfaction and its Power

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Would you dispute the power of appreciation? No, me neither. But something that must come pretty close to it is the joy of satisfaction. You … Read more