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Your Employees Just Aren't That Into You |
A new survey shows that employees who aren't into their jobs cite their relationship with their boss as the biggest problem. If you think employee engagement is one of those warm and fuzzy phrases found in the self-help aisle, think again.
According to new research, not only should you be taking employee engagement seriously, it’s probably already a problem within your company. And you might be to blame.
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Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition |
It was the bold title of a conference this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of a widely read article in The Harvard Business Review last October: “Big Data: The Management Revolution.â€Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business, led off the conference by saying that Big Data would be “the next big chapter of our business history.†Next on stage was Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor and director of the M.I.T. center and a co-author of the article with Dr. McAfee. Big Data, said Professor Brynjolfsson, will “replace ideas, paradigms, organizations and ways of thinking about the world.†|
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The One-Minute Change That Will Transform Your Company |
We talk a lot about major pivots--but what about minor ones? Here's how one small piece of pivotal behavior can change your company for the better. Can a single behavior elevate an entire organization? It can - if it’s the right behavior. Here’s how a simple 1-minute act helped an organization reinforce its purpose and outperform its competition by leaps and bounds. |
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Dairy business in Lithuania: Big fishes in small pond |
The entire Lithuanian dairy industry is controlled by five major companies: Pieno žvaigždės, Rokiškio sūris, Žemaitijos pienas, Vilkyškių pieninė, and Marijampolės pieno konservai. They are doubtlessly the strongest dairy plants in the Baltics, since their competitors in Latvia and Estonia are incomparably smaller and the two dairy markets are more divided. |
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Why Trying To Manipulate Employee Motivation Always Backfires? |
CEOs have two levers they pull on a regular basis to influence their organizations. The first lever adds to, or takes away from, strategic intentions. The second one controls the hiring of key talent to ensure that the right people are in the right seats. Levers work well for many of the factors that impact business success; but one area-employee engagement-resists “leveraging†|
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This is Your Brain on Organizational Change |
Why can't we change our organizations? Year after year, the list of companies that no longer exist because they were unable to evolve continues to grow. It includes such household names as Sunbeam, Polaroid, Tower Records, Circuit City, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. After six decades of study, untold investment, and the best efforts of scholars, executives, and consultants, most organizational change efforts still underperform, fail, or make things worse |
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