May 15
3 Warning Signs a Top Employee is About to Quit
Even managers who focus on culture and motivation are sometimes unable to retain high-performance team members. Here are three warning
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Marissa Brassfield
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
May 14
5 Key Insights on Managing the Social Network Generation
Today's must-reads tackle how Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest have shaped the way leaders manage the so-called social network
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May 12
Weekend Reading: Work Motivation Guest Posts 5/7 - 5/11
Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on business and work motivation-related topics to a variety of Web properties. Here
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May 11
Avant-Garde Offices: The Smoffice
The Smoffice, this week's Avant-Garde Offices star, is an itty-bitty workspace about the size of a bathroom. The
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May 10
Proactive Management Makes Employee Feedback Dead Simple
Matthew Swyers wrote an excellent piece for Inc. today about why ultimatums don't work in employer-employee relationships, but
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May 09
How Employee Engagement Leads to Productivity
Many managers read all the talk about employee engagement and think that happy employees will automatically level up their productivity;
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May 07
5 Essential Tips on Employee Motivation in the Workplace
What factors drive employee motivation in the workplace? This week's must-reads share beneficial resources to increase productivity by
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May 06
Weekend Reading: Management Guest Posts 4/27 - 5/2
Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on business-related topics to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of
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May 05
Avant-Garde Offices: YouTube
If you've ever wanted to work in a building you never have to leave, then this week'
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May 04
Do You Have a Job, a Career or a Calling? Use Your Work Attitude to Boost Productivity
Work means different things to everyone, and understanding whether you have a job, a career or a calling represents the
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May 02
A Day in My Ridiculously Efficient Life
Yesterday, I got an email from a new newsletter subscriber asking me how I spend my day. Like most productive
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May 01
Employers Up the Ante by Gamifying Healthy Habits
I've written before about how employers can incentivize healthy employee habits, but a feature in the Wall Street
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