DRIVE: New Yorker book club discussion

by Ray Salemi on March 5, 2010

Malcom Gladwell has selected Drive as this month’s book club book.  The book discusses how external carrots and sticks (What Pink calls Motivation 2.0) cannot explain why people spent all that time creating Wikipedia, Linux, or Firefox.  It cannot explain why people volunteer for non-profits, and it cannot explain what makes people truly connected to their jobs.

In DRIVE, Pink suggests a new model of motivation.

DRIVE: New Yorker Book Club page.

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A Nice Review of Leading After a Layoff

by Ray Salemi on February 28, 2010

The folks at the Boots blog had nice things to say about Leading After a Layoff.

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Set Up a Praise Folder to Track Successes for Performance Reviews, Resume Boosts – Motivation – Lifehacker

February 26, 2010

Here’s an excellent tip from the folks at LifeHacker.  Set up a Praise Folder to store all those good things that happen in February for the performance review in December.
Set Up a Praise Folder to Track Successes for Performance Reviews, Resume Boosts – Motivation – Lifehacker.
You might also want to check out evernote.com for storing [...]

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Taking Charge of Your Career

January 2, 2010

As we start the new year, I thought I’d share Jeff Cohen’s Ten Tips to Take Charge of Your Career.
Who do you believe is most responsible for guiding your career?  Is it your boss, the company?  The answer is YOU!  Master these ten tips and you’ll be climbing the corporate ladder in no time:

Find [...]

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Seth’s Blog: The difference between hiring and recruiting

December 26, 2009

Excellent point from Seth Godin on hiring vs. recruiting.  I wish I had thought of the difference in these two words because it is important.  The key to recruiting is to create a the job description table I work through in Leading After a Layoff:
List the following to make a great job description:

Results—This is what [...]

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Seth’s Blog: You don’t have the power

December 19, 2009

Seth Godin is ostensibly talking about the publishing industry.  But read his blog post in terms of changing an employee’s basic nature, and you’ll get an equally valid lesson.
Seth’s Blog: You don’t have the power.

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The first step in yearly planning

November 19, 2009

We’ve all reached that time of year where our company does annual planning.  Usually this means putting  managers in a room and getting them to create a PowerPoint presentation.  We really want planning to be more than that.
If you get put into such a PowerPoint generating room, remember the first step of annual planning.  Take [...]

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Motivating employees from the Top

November 18, 2009

My tips and writing focus on the front-line manager–a manager who leads individual contributors.  So my motivation suggestions focus on putting people into roles where they have talent and connecting their contributions to their personal interests.
This blog posting looks at the question from the top level.  How do you motivate employees as an upper level [...]

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Nice Email Tip

November 12, 2009

Here’s a simple email tip that a coworker suggested.
When you are writing a controversial email, which you shouldn’t be, there is probably a better way to communicate this information, but perhaps you are being forced at gunpoint, be sure not to fill in the email addresses until after you’ve written the email.
Some email tools can [...]

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Gathering data without emailing crap around

November 11, 2009

In my last blog post, I discussed the futility of sending large spreadsheets, or worse, PowerPoint documents, around the company looking for feedback.  Instead, consider using a free survey tool such as the one in Google Docs.
Here is an example survey:
Go to www.greatmanagertips.com to see the survey…
Once you take the survey, you’ll be able [...]

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