Employee morale directly influences team productivity and efficiency, and today's must-reads focus on how to keep your office motivated. * Instead of focusing on why your employees are quitting their jobs, focus on how you can regain your employees' trust by inspiring and motivating them. [Recognize This!] * Forget...
Former Harvard guard Jeremy Lin has lit up the New York Knicks and the NBA at large with his dynamic play over the past two weeks. Lin's story is one of perseverance, faith, humility, hard work and commitment, so it's no wonder that business writers have...
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...
It's a simple enough question: how do you define productivity? For the Ridiculously Efficient, productivity is doing more work in less time. It's working effectively and efficiently, completing work tasks properly the first time in a time-conscious and resource-conscious fashion. To really define productivity, though, you...
Managers can supercharge team productivity by taking a cue from video game design and gamifying aspects of work. Adam Dole of Method recently outlined the four things video games teach us about motivating people in a post for Fast Company: * Games create urgent optimism. * Games create tight social groups. * Games...
