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Why Incentives Are Irresistible, Effective, and Likely to Backfire
Where you put your initial focus changes your evaluation your environment, and consequently your own behavior and that of your employees. Encouraging risky behaviors and penalizing mistakes are intended to improve performance but can have the opposite effect.
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How Retailers Can Make The Best Of A Slowdown
Downturns are tough on retailers. Recent McKinsey research indicates that during the last two recessions (1990 to 1991 and 2000 to 2001), growth slowed for nearly every retail sub-sector in the U.S. Ninety-three percent of the retailers surveyed that existed during both downturns experienced slowing revenue growth in one of them, and 59% endured.....
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Entrepreneurs Who Rose From The Ashes
A word of encouragement for all the entrepreneurs (and every other working stiff, for that matter) scrapping it out in the latest downturn: Recessions--for all the havoc they wreak--can also sow the seeds of serious fortunes. "At a basic level, there is an important job or problem that customers can't do or solve for themselves," says .....
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Invest in Yourself
This article is a good reminder-- When times are tough the temptation is to pull into our shell, and to hide from the trouble. This strategy does not prepare us for the future, nor does it improve our future opportunities. Today, while your work flow is at an ebb, how are you getting ready to meet your future?
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How We All Will End The Recession
Many observers are pessimistic about the economy because they believe a vicious downward cycle has taken hold, where less spending leads to fewer jobs, which....
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