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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. We think this is important.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket.

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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back

Harvard Business

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. It accounts for about 2.5%

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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. Take the following six-question survey to determine and benchmark your likelihood of experiencing gratitude.

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Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production

MishTalk

Nonetheless, and in spite of falling prices and pleas from Venezuela to restrict production, OPEC decided to take no action. The group maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said yesterday after the 12 nations met in Vienna. Brent crude dropped as much as 8.4

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. David Aubrey/Getty Images. It is hard to think of a single case.

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Can we rely on LIBOR? - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

IN A RECENT article by Bloomberg Businessweek , assistant managing editor Brian Bremmer reports that investigators in America, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the EU are trying to determine whether a handful of brokers and traders have manipulated LIBOR. by Tom Spencer on March 6, 2012 · 4 comments  ·  Image Source. in Economics.