Favoring Meritocracy Over Equality
Discrimination based on personal factors like religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political beliefs, and other personal factors, have no place in the work environment. Discrimination based on talent, effort, and potential, though, are necessary for maximizing performance. When it comes to compensation, benefits, training, coaching, and even promotions, many leaders try to be “fair” rather than […]
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- Aug, 31, 2016
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Aug, 31, 2016
Be Well
Healthy employees are more likely to be happy employees, and if nothing else, healthy employees are more likely to actually show up for work. Many folks try to stay healthy in the short-term — look at all the people you see wearing masks on public transit — but a long-term approach to health can not […]
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- Posted in Health and Balance
- Aug, 29, 2016
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The iBuilding
A couple days ago we mentioned the new Apple headquarters and how it can support collaboration. We thought it’s worth diving a little deeper into that. It may look like a spaceship, but it’s designed to help bring employees together here on Earth. Apparently, the folks at Apple outgrew their space years ago and have […]
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- Aug, 26, 2016
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Hanging Up
In Bangkok, you find signs in the Skytrain stations urging you to look up rather than down at your phone. Go down into the Hong Kong MTR and you hear announcements asking you to be careful on the escalators and “please do not be looking only at your phone.” Walk down the streets of Seoul […]
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- Posted in Management
- Aug, 24, 2016
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There Is No “I” in “Creativity”
OK, actually, there are two of them. But the reality is that your creative employees will usually be stronger together than they will be individually. Creativity often tends to be a very individualized characteristic. Your Creatives have their own talents that are not mass produced, they each have their own view of the world, they […]
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- Aug, 22, 2016
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