After months of speculation, it’s official.
Cisco will lay off 6,500 employees—about nine percent of its workforce—and transfer another 5,000 as part of the sale of its set-top box business to a Taiwanese company.
But what about those who don’t get cut? What about the 60,500 Cisco employees who remain in the …
Go Google Yourself
Go Google yourself. You know, go type your name in between quotes into Google or Bing or one of the other major internet search engines and see what comes up. I’ll wait…
Did you really do it? What came back on you is basically what your brand …
In our book We, Rudy Karsan and I suggest that Recognition is one of the three major drivers of employee engagement (Growth and Trust being the other two). Now, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released a new survey on employee engagement and recognition, based on …
For most of human existence, pay has been tied directly to output. We consumed what we hunted, later we bartered our crops and livestock, and still later we would swap services we performed for lodging or meals. Even after the invention of money we received it for the goods we …
In a special initiative called Project Oxygen, Google unleashed its famed statisticians to analyze 10,000 observations about managers, across more than 100 variables, to find out how to build the perfect boss. Their resulting manifesto identifies 8 qualities, presented in order of importance:
1. Be a good coach
Provide specific, constructive feedback, …
Why are so many people holding more than one job these days (from CEOs to professional athletes to regular people)?
Income — Perhaps the biggest benefit, of course, is that it can increase your income.
Variety — Second jobs often don’t pay much, but they enable the worker to learn new skills, …
A strong workforce trend is the shift to holding more than just one job. And it’s not just people in lower income brackets who are juggling multiple jobs.
CEOs and senior executives of large companies frequently also hold paid director positions with other companies, not to mention …
Instead of work life “balance” we should focus on a work life “blend”. In fact, some of the most engaged employees never think in terms of balance. They are passionate fighters for a common cause, not clock-watching widget turners.
New research supports this. In the Journal of Management and Organization an …
Social and political philosophers throughout the ages have written about Trust being at the foundation of social relationships, which are the building blocks of civil society. Indeed, Trust is one of the top three drivers of emotional commitment and feeling engaged at work.
Last year the Edelman 2010 Trust Barometer …
For most of human existence, pay has been tied directly to output. We consumed only what we hunted successfully, later we bartered the crops we harvested and livestock we raised, and still later we would swap the skills we were good at for lodging or meals we needed. Even after …
Everybody knows they should be happy at work. But does everyone know how empowering and fulfilling engagement is? Engagement is different from happiness. Being fully engaged means you are motivated to give the extra effort that advances the goals of your employer. Your job might be tough, and it might …
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