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26 Exceptional Employee Engagement Quotes

Rick Conlow

“Employee engagement is the art and science of engaging people in authentic and recognized connections to strategy, roles, performance, organization community, relationship, customers, development, energy, and happiness to leverage, sustain, and transform work into results.” David Zinger. Jack Welch. Employee engagement is not hard.

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

The executives, who huddled behind closed doors in the corner office, anticipated the typical buzz of energy with the promise of free pizza. The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions. Around 10:30 a.m.,

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When your project isn’t making money

Seth Godin Blog

Are you aware of work in process, cash flow and cycle times? Your people might not be motivated or trained to be efficient. Because people do what they want, and they respond to training and respect and opportunity). Because people do what they want, and they respond to training and respect and opportunity).

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business

While these core businesses continued to generate cash flow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing. Based on my work with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and other organizations, I have found that “unlearning,” although indispensable, is extremely difficult. A smaller challenge for only part of the organization.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Recognizing the growing consumer interest in sustainable products and looking to solve consumer challenges such as high energy costs, CPG companies have developed new products to gain access to this market. and European line of cold-water detergents that require 50% less energy than warm water washing. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

“Investors rush to get on the train even as it accelerates. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.