An astounding 90 percent of managers are ineffective, according to a study published in "Business Strategy Review." When you also consider that ineffective leadership costs businesses an average of 7 percent of annual sales, you have a recipe for financial disaster. Researchers Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal found...
Leigh Steere recently reviewed "Everything's a Project" by Ben Snyder and introduced one of the book's core concepts: Employee engagement is a three-legged stool. I've written plenty about employee engagement -- especially as it pertains to efficiency and productivity -- and like...
I recently had the opportunity to ask Michael Reynolds, a CultureRx consultant and the president and CEO of SpinWeb, a few questions about ROWE, or a results-only work environment. SpinWeb was the first company in Indianapolis to enact a ROWE, and Reynolds saw employee productivity double since embracing its principles....
Some 21 million Americans will quit their jobs in the next 12 months, which will cost employers over $2 billion. These are just some of the chilling statistics Cornerstone On Demand and Harris Interactive uncovered in their Employee Performance Management survey. Of the 1,143 employed survey respondents, only 37...
One of the concepts described in "Drive" by Daniel Pink is that of a FedEx Day, where employees can work on anything they want for a 24-hour period. There are just two caveats: the tasks they perform can't fall under their regular job responsibilities, and they...
Luis Suarez of IBM has essentially sworn off email since February 2008, opting instead to use social media to communicate with colleagues. "I was getting tired of doing everyone else's work instead of mine," he told Wired, explaining that many of his daily emails entailed answering...
