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Q&A Continues – 2010 – Best Year Ever??

January 7, 2010
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My good buddy and fellow freak flag flier, Joe Gerstandt, and I occasionally exchange Q and A posts.  We embarked on this as an experiment and I will claim this as one of the most successful for 2009. Joe has a list on his site titled: Big Brains, Fat Hearts and Warm Souls – and [...]

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Taking Interest in ‘EEs Lives: Don’t *Act* More Human, Be More Human

October 20, 2009
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A client called me recently asking my opinion about an article he read in BusinessWeek titled, “The No-Cost Way to Motivate.“  His take on it was, “the author says to take more interest in your employees’ personal lives.  I say, is that really a good idea?” Maybe.  If I already had a relationship with my [...]

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Prevent ‘EE Exodus: Make It Make Sense to Them

September 30, 2009
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I saw a intriguing phrase recently in regard to employees’ state of mind: “turnover intention”  A Deloitte report describes this as, “an employee’s “conscious and deliberate willfulness to leave the organization” within a certain time interval, e.g., the next six months” (Tett and Meyer, 1993). You know that I think it is important to never take [...]

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