When I was at ESPN.com, everyone on my team took turns carrying a pager for a week every two months. The pager would beep if there was a “website emergency” (a phrase my pharmaceutical sales rep girlfriend and her doctor clients chuckled at) such as a broken data feed, or if an editor had […]
Entries Tagged as 'alfie kohn'
The Best Way To Motivate Your People
May 13th, 2007 by Kareem · 7 Comments
Tags: motivation · alfie kohn · compensation · gratitude · appreciation · money · thanks
Two Ways To Make Your Company A Happier (and Better) Place to Work
January 5th, 2007 by Kareem · 3 Comments
I cross-posted this over at the great Slacker Manager as part of its Free-for-all-Friday. Only made a few edits here
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Growing up, I was crazy about two things: sports and technology. So when I found a job posting to go work at ESPN.com, I stayed up for several weeks perfecting a website demonstrating […]
Tags: motivation · alfie kohn · passion
How Better Systems Can Make Stars Of All Your Employees
September 20th, 2006 by Kareem · 2 Comments
Bob Sutton has an excellent post about the value of well-designed systems. The weak link in organizations are often the systems, which incentivize counter-productive behaviors. This leads to behavior that is both unproductive for a company, and demotivating for employees.
And when 73% of employees are disengaged at work, it appears that there are a […]
Tags: systems perspective · bob sutton · motek · alfie kohn · bureaucracy