Over the weekend, a new friend and I went hiking, and a casual conversation about fitness and weight loss turned into an inspiring chat about productivity, goals and commitment. In short, she lost 100 pounds in about a year and now participates in Tough Mudder and Spartan Race events. Naturally,...
Many managers think that fostering internal competition incentivizes employees to continually do their best, but for some workers, this practice can actually hamper productivity. Researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania studied internal competition with several experiments using Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk platform and came...
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...
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...
Yesterday, I shared compensation-centric highlights from this week's #HRBookChat Twitter book chat, which featured Daniel Pink; today's follow-up post focuses on Pink's tips to institute a results-only work environment. A ROWE office initiative, as the name indicates, focuses on results rather than a place...
On Monday night, "Drive" author Daniel Pink participated in the #HRBookChat Twitter chat; his insights on employee compensation and engagement were especially apt. The one-hour chat produced too much excellent information to distill in a single post; look for a follow-up post with Part 2 of the chat....
