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Congratulations - It's a baby Chimera! 2008-05-22 05:55:42 I picked up a book at a Barnes and Nobles in Oakland this week - something non-business to read on the plane back to South Carolina. Normally it’s all business but since I’ve been on 24/7 for a while I thought I’d take a break. I picked up Michael Crichton’s book “Next.” A pure fiction book, written a couple year’s ago, it focuses on gene therapy and the use – or more accurately Read more:Chimera
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One Chapter You Must Read 2008-05-23 09:50:24 One of my recent book purchases was "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely. It's a mash up of "Freakonmics" and "Influence: Science and Practice" and "Fooled by Randomness." There is an accompanying blog as well. Having read quite a few tomes on influence there wasn't anything strikingly new in the book - but for a lot of readers it will be a very, very inte Read more:Chapter
Today's Detour... 2008-05-27 07:55:58 Drop by Fistful of Talent - I have a post on the Wii and the way the new Wii Fit program ties in nicely with performance improvement techniques. Don't want to miss it! While you're there - sign up and subscribe - lots 'o fun in the Fistful Of Talent Pool! Read more:Today
Let Your Company Culture be Your Filter 2008-05-29 07:34:44 A recent post on SystematicHR got me thinking. The post, called "The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce" highlights the fact that the workforce today is a very heterogeneous group. From global locations, to remote workers to generational issues... the workforce today doesn't look like the workforce of the past. This diversity is causing many companies to scratch their hea Read more:Filter
Fistful Post 2008-06-04 08:28:20 Jump over to Fistful of Talent (FOT)- I have a posting on owning your incentive and recognition program from yesterday. Too often we design a program based on the desires of the audience. While I don't believe we should ignore their input - we do have a responsibility to design a program that straddles what you want and what they want. It's not easy but it is our job. Click on over and subscribe t
Virtual Book Tour 2008-06-05 04:04:00 I'm a bit late to the game but there is a virtual book tour taking place in the blogosphere. I - and seven other reviewers, commentors, etc. are providing Sybil Stershic, author of "Taking Care of the People who Matter Most" with input and commentary. The book tour started earlier this week. The schedule is/was... June 1st, Kevin Burns posted a review at Burns Blogs Attitude. June 3rd, L
Employee is just a legal term... 2008-06-09 04:00:00 You know it's the right thing to do. You've heard the statistics, read the white papers and even had the conversation. Heck, your company mission statement may even have the words in it... “Our employees come first” or “Our employees are our most important asset.” But the real question is what are you really doing about it? As you've read on this blog over the past couple of years you know Read more:Employee
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Teaser and a Link... 2008-06-10 15:54:45 Jump over to Fistful of Talent - another post from your's truly. To give you a teaser... "...Ask most managers who's on their team and they will begin to list off their direct reports - their supervisors, associates, etc. While these folks are on their team - it's not the team they play for. Let me explain. As a manager you "own" a team - a group of people who work together to achie Read more:Teaser
Sway - More Irrationality and Influence 2008-06-16 11:34:37 A few weeks back I highlighted a book called “Predictably Irrational.” I liked the book a lot and I posted a bit on the impact some of the concepts in the book can have on the design of incentive programs. Another book in a very similar vein was recently released – called “Sway” -written by two brothers – Ori Brafman – a Stanford MBA and Rom Brafman – a Phd. in psychology (the perf
More Sway 2008-06-17 04:17:00 Yesterday I posted feedback Rom Brafman – author of the new book ‘Sway” –on how to use our innate irrational behavior to help drive performance within an organization. Today – we touch on a couple of important points – team versus individual performance and commitment to past behavior and its impact on future performance. Part Two Tying into the idea of group dynamics – will a progra
How long are your legs? 2008-06-24 06:37:53 Five working days. Seven days in a week. Thirty days has September, April, May and November, all the rest have thirty one. 365 days in a year. There are many ways to measure time. In business we typically look at months, quarters, years. Time is also one of the variables that drive incentive, reward and recognition programs. I am often asked "how long should an incentive run?" or "h
Two steps back to take a step forward... 2008-07-08 10:26:53 I've been extremely busy lately - hence the lack of regular posting to this site. When time allows, I have the ability to read and think and find topics to post about. When I'm busy I have to resort to only posting when I get hit right in the face with a topic. That is how I came to this thought today. I was in a meeting recently talking about how to revamp, improve, change... Read more:steps
What Neo Didn't Know 2008-07-02 07:12:47 Want to know what the Matrix movie and Incentives and Recognition have in common? I know you do. Click over to Incentive Magazine and read my contribution this month... Take the red pill... go ahead... See you on the other side.
My Kindgdom for Definitions 2008-06-30 08:11:48 What a way to start a Monday. I could feel it coming on. I knew it was going to happen and I couldn't help myself. The bile was rising in my throat and I had to take a step away. I composed myself and came back. I came back to post a comment on an entry at Human Markets called "Before the Tee Shirts" (hat tip to Frank Roche at knowHR blogging fame for the... Read more:Definitions
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite 2008-07-24 05:41:47 John Lennon wanted the song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" to make him "smell the sawdust on the floor." Well, you can smell the sawdust on the floor over at the The HR Capitalist site today. Mr. Dunn is sponsoring the 39th Carnival of HR. You can hear the Hawkers... "Come one, come all - see the death-defying HR pros provide punditry and profundity." Stroll past
Thursday Detour 2008-07-17 05:44:33 Every high school student says ... "I'll never use that math stuff in real life." Well, they're wrong. Check out my post on subtraction before addition on Fistful Of Talent. Work the rules of math backward to arrive your reward and performance strategy. Read more:Thursday
Me VS We 2008-07-14 14:56:57 After 20+ years in a specific market you get to see a lot of stuff. All of that stuff goes into your head and at certain times it coalesces and an idea pops out. Sometimes they are big ideas - sometimes small ones. That's what happened this weekend. As I pondered some of the posts I've put up here and over on Fistful of Talent - I noticed that a lot of what has inhabited...
That Ole Gang 'o Mine 2008-07-11 04:06:00 The clock is ticking... the time is soon upon us. I am talking about the "Age of Conversation '08." Due out in a month or two you won't want to miss it. In 2007 an entire book called "The Age of Conversation" was created with the input of one hundred bloggers. This time there are 237 authors - each focused on topics that impact the ongoing conversation that is becoming marketin
Politicians Know Something You Should 2008-08-08 04:20:00 I don’t know if I should be worried or thrilled. I have spent the last couple of years studying behavioral economics and social psychology to augment my understanding of rewards and incentives to help companies get where they want to be. Now I see an article that talks about politicians getting the idea that this is important for public policy. I don’t know if I like the idea of politicians ge
August - On The Edge 2008-08-06 05:48:19 It's the beginning of August
and my monthly article for Incentive Magazine is up on their site. Called "The Disabling Power of Consensus" - I take a stab at some of the things the incentive industry holds most dear. A taste of my rant... "The concept of consensus is that in the absence of other information, we follow the lead of what a group thinks. And, when that group is similar t
Company Culture is not Magic 2008-08-04 04:00:00 Been doing some light reading lately. Nothing too heady but valuable non-the-less. Picked up a copy of Jim Champy's new book - Outsmart - How to do What Your Competition Can't. You may remember him from his books Re-Engineering the Corporation and X-Engineering the Corporation. Two books that got a lot of people talking when they were published. Outsmart - while not nearly as deep as his other eff Read more:Magic
Incentives aren't just for breakfast anymore... 2008-07-30 05:19:58 Business is about people - people doing jobs, people buying products, people talking to people. And anywhere you have people you have a need to influence behavior. I started by career in the incentive business a while back - and at that time incentives were focused almost exclusively on sales people. My has the world changed. Employee programs are all the rage - from wellness to referral. There ar Read more:Incentives
Motivation, Incentives and What Wimpy Knew 2008-07-28 04:00:00 To paraphrase Wimpy from the Popeye cartoon, “I’ll gladly reward you Tuesday for your behavior today.” Every incentive and reward program is really a trade off between behavior and a reward of some kind. We ask our audience to do something and in turn we reward them for their effort. The idea is that the award will be of sufficient value and/or desire to affect their behavior. Like Wimpy we Read more:Incentives
Executive Lunch Rooms and Company Culture 2008-08-13 05:45:57 Just a hop, skip and a jump over to Fistful of Talent to see my latest post. Called "Executive
s Need to "Eat the Dog Food" When It Comes to Company Culture..." And by the way... don't forget to say Grace. Read more:Lunch
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Sometimes it's what you think you know... 2008-09-16 07:24:00 I've had the video clip below in my file for a while waiting to post and was looking for the right time. Well... my son broke is collar bone last night at football practice so I thought it was a sign to post now. The video is within the context of football - but really it's about performance and the curse of knowing what you're capable of - or really about not knowing what's possible.... Read more:Sometimes
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Imagineering Success 2008-09-11 08:15:19 Research shows that folks that excel do something different that just might account for their success. Top performers may have a more active imagination than the rest of us. They See It Bigger This study on the Psyblog site presents the results of research done with golfers. From the post:"Witt's research team conducted three experiments. In the first, 46 golfers were asked to estimate the si Read more:Success
Metlife Gets It! 2008-09-10 07:00:00 Being able to publicly highlight a good recognition program is difficult. Most companies do not want their strategy or their process to be duplicated by their competitors so they keep the program design under wraps. However, this month at the Incentive Magazine web site they highlighted a program installed at Metlife - and boy - have they got it right. I'm not sure if I could do it better. The spo
What You Say is What You Are 2008-09-05 04:00:00 Living is easy in my home town - Greenville, SC. Ranked #4 out of the top 100 places to live by Relocate America, Greenville is doing an awful lot right when it comes to making the "downtown" area vibrant and desirable. But, always on the lookout for topical items that I can weave into a post about influence and aligning behavior and goals I ran across something interesting in the Greenv
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