Everyone wants to know how to collaborate more effectively. Hardcore agile practitioners would argue for everyone to sit together in the same room. However, as you move away from the world of corporate programming, the chances of that being possible drops.
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Your intranet or corporate social network can be a digital workplace's best channel to establish engagement and a reliable two-way link between your employees and organizational culture. Content authors play a key — and ongoing — role in this relationship.
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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh famously noted that, “To make customers happy, we have to make sure our employees are happy first.
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Sit down, please. This is going to come as a shock to everyone involved in marketing, promoting or pitching a product or service. Not everything is awesome. Not your new product release, not that platform upgrade you deluded yourself into thinking is the "most innovative advancement" in the history
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High-performing people look for organizations with environments where they can be their authentic selves. They seek cultures that adapt to the way they want to work. If they don’t find what they’re looking for, they are happy to look elsewhere.
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Let’s just call him Harold because he asked us not to use his real name. He’s a sales rep at an insurance firm who cruises apps like Tinder and Match.com between customer visits.
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Some people find inspiration in the shower. Others — like Jay Bernstein, the founder of Long Island, N.Y.-based Win-Win Solutions Group — find it on the Fourth of July … which is why it feels especially appropriate to tell you his story today.
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What are Yahoo, Google, Pinterest and Snapchat doing at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity? Isn’t this event just for creative communication types? Not anymore, says Baldwin Cunningham, CEO of Partnered, an online, private network that connects established brands with startups.
Continue reading...Google Cloud Platform has been steadily building out its services chops since its launch several years ago, offering an ever-expanding list of products. In 2014, to name a few examples, it rolled out Managed Virtual Machines and Google Cloud SQL in the early part of the year.
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As unbelievable as it might sound, many large corporations still use the old annual survey to gauge employee engagement. The process goes something like this: Hire a consultant to administer the employee survey. Wait four to six weeks for the firm to compile the data.
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