Tag: employee incentives
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How to Achieve your Strategic Plan: Part 1 of 2
In honor of every company that is developing their strategic plans and annual budgets, I wanted to share with you some sobering news: 9 out of 10 of your strategic plans are going to fail. In the first entry of a two-part post, I’ll address the four most common reasons why Strategic Plans fail. In…
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Unleashing the Entrepreneur in Every Employee
Unleashing the Entrepreneur in Every Employee In many industrial work settings, employees are simply viewed as cogs in a machine, I.e. cost of goods sold. It’s a longstanding tradition that dates back to Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford. But that perception sells people short. And it does a disservice to employers and employees alike. Empowering…
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Fair is not Equal: How to win the hearts and minds of your people
I once had a union official lodge a complaint that we were not treating everyone in the factory the same and that it had to stop. I told him that if he insisted, at my next “all hands” meeting I would announce that the union told me to treat them all poorly. The reason –…