Meaning and meaningful work are not common words in the workplace lexicon. Unfortunately management practices have carefully neutered such needs in a diligent pursuit of efficiency, cost-cutting, and scalability of operations. Viewing work as an extension of one’s passion is the shift management must grasp Don’t get me wrong the above items […] Read more… Read More»
My neighbor Jim is quitting. When Jim took his current job a few years ago, his morale was sky-high. He came in earlier and stayed later than anyone on his team, in order to make a good impression but also because he was eager to deliver extraordinary results. At lunchtime, he made a habit […] Read more… Read More»
We are most familiar with treating employees as if they can split their personal from their professional life when coming to work. At its root is an inherently dehumanizing belief that employees can turn off the influences of one on the other. Certainly employees’ financial struggles or ailing family member shouldn’t influence work performance. […] Read more… Read More»
For those executives who thought or still think that social is a fad, it’s time to reevaluate your thinking. Our very own Ted Coine is featured in a Slideshare focusing on what organizations can do to succeed in being social. For the executive, senior manager or even middle-manager reluctant to find ways to scale social […] Read more… Read More»
What I love about a new year are the expectations and anticipation reserved for something new. We permit ourselves to mentally travel back in time and revisit the old and peer into what worked and what didn’t. Many of us then become resolute to change or continue doing whatever our mental time travel revealed […] Read more… Read More»
ExchangeGain received an early first-anniversary present in the form of this outstanding article in The Huffington Post: Top 100 Business, Leadership and Technology Twitter Accounts You Must Follow The article was written by friend of ExchangeGain Vala Afshar, who himself is in my Top 10 list of Twitter accounts to […] Read more… Read More»
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