I played and officiated basketball. Somewhere I heard, “Basketball is a game of momentum.”
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Topics: employee engagement, People, Extraordinary Results, People and Process, Experiences & Beliefs Drive Actions & Results
Invest in Your Worst & Best Employees – The Story of Two Tails
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 17, 2022
Despite Google’s efforts to always hire the best, like most organizations, they’re susceptible to hiring mistakes.
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, People Development, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Laszlo Bock
Hiring is the Single Most Important People Activity in Your Organization
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 10, 2022
“Hiring is the most important people function you have, and most of us aren’t as good at it as we think. Refocusing your resources on hiring better will have a higher return than almost any training program you can develop.” ~Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, hiring decisions, Hiring, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google
Topics: People, People Decisions, manager, People Development, People and Process, Exit Interviews
In Innovation Obstacle - Is Your Team “Licking the Cookie?” we shared how Intuit drives innovation by incentivizing its team.
Read MoreTopics: People, The Right People, Innovation, Bonus and Incentives, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, Thales Teixeira
Good Jobs Strategy - People Are Not a Cost - They Are an Investment
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Oct 11, 2021
Topics: People, People Decisions, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Rewards & Compensation, Scaling Up Compensation
Scaling Up Compensation - 5 Design Principles for Turning Your Largest Expense into a Strategic Advantage
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Oct 4, 2021
Scaling Up Compensation by Verne Harnish, and Sebastian Ross offers great examples of companies that have turned one of the most challenging and thorny issues a business can face into a strategic advantage.
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, Business Culture, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Rewards & Compensation, Scaling Up Compensation
What’s the difference between hard and soft skills? Why is it important to develop both? Guest writer Frank Hamilton shares these important considerations.
Read MoreTopics: People, Leadership Training, Growing Your People, Worker Performance
Topics: People, Training, Culture of Discipline, Jim Collins, performance, Execution, human behavior performance, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, After-Action Reviews
7 Unique Ways to Show your Remote Workers Appreciation
Posted by Elizabeth Hines on Mon, Jun 28, 2021
I’m traveling this week and as a follow-up to Five Conditions Under Which Your People Will Execute Well! Elizabeth Hines, writer, and editor at Assignment Help and Academized is our guest blogger. She is a contributing writer for OX Essays. As a content writer, she writes articles about the latest tech and marketing trends, innovations, and strategies.
Read MoreTopics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, Employee retention, People Development, Employee Satisfaction