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20 is the magic number PDF Print E-mail

What gets rewarded usually gets done. So, when CEOs earn more than 364 times the pay of the average worker, it's only natural they will focus almost exclusively on short term, bottom-line results. There has to be a better way. So what is the appropriate way to pay a CEO?

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Are you dead on the job? PDF Print E-mail

Here's a challenge for you. Find someone doing something good today and tell them what a good job they're doing. Because praise is the thing that motivates us the most, even though it takes so little time and costs nothing.

There's a story doing the rounds at the moment about the worker who was dead at his desk for five days before anyone discovered him.  The story goes ...

"Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay.

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Have you been appreciated lately? PDF Print E-mail

Six steps to make yourself and others feel better at work.

We all want to be associated with a winner, be it a winning person, a winning team, a worthwhile cause or a successful organisation. We all have sports people, teams, actors or artists that we consider "ours". When they do well, we bask in their reflected glory.

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What do you get when you pay people to perform? PDF Print E-mail

Many organisations today are looking to increase their bottom line by paying their people to improve individual performance.  Do such policies really work?  Are there any downsides?

I recently read a disturbing report in the daily newspaper about an air crash in Indonesia. The article (in the Sydney Morning Herald, 12/4/07) read in part; “Pilot may have been saving fuel in crash.

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