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- Tips And Ideas For Motivating Employee Performance
- Allow employees to cross-train with other employees whose jobs might be interesting to them. If you can do so without completely slowing down your teams' production, change up your employees' tasks periodically so that work does not become tedious. Boredom is a huge motivator - but not the kind of...
- White papers 2006-04-18
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- Anti-Boredom Month
- MAPLEWOOD, N.J. JR -- July has been declared anti-boredom month by the Boring Institute, a clearinghouse for information about boredom in Maplewood. The institute wants boredom taken more seriously. It is estimated that, at any given time, there are 10 million Americans suffering from depression, according...
- Research articles 2001-06-29
- 100-year-old Briton keeps on working 'to avoid boredom'
- LONDON AFP — Britain's oldest worker has enjoyed a day off to celebrate his 100th birthday but explained he would become a "miserable sod" if he ever had to retire for good. "Buster" Martin, a mechanic for a south London plumbing firm who has 17 children and 70 grandchildren and...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Coalition ships fight boredom to remain on guard in Gulf
- ABOARD HMAS NEWCASTLE IN THE NORTHERN GULF AFP — For the Australian frigate HMAS Newcastle as for other coalition warships guarding Iraqi oil terminals in the northern Gulf, boredom and routine are proving more of an enemy than Al-Qaeda militants. Captain Trevor Jones, commander of the guided missile frigate,...
- Research articles 2005-10-12
- SILICON.COM: New Silicon.com microsite busts boredom fo for UK's unfortunate Millennium workers.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 December 1999-SILICON.COM: New Silicon.com microsite busts boredom for UK's unfortunate Millennium workers C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:141299 * Silicon.com launches the Y2K Survival Kit for the third of its viewers that will be spending some or all of New...
- Research articles 1999-12-16
- Santa Sets a Bad Example | BTalk Australia
- (11min 34) We all tend to overdo it over the festive season. Of course, when it comes to overeating Santa Claus sets a bad example. So what should we be feeding ourselves over Christmas? Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to nutrionist Zoe Bingley-Pullin about eating...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Making Un-Boring Presentations
- Ask your co-worker if she can remember the last time she walked out of a presentation and thought, “Gee, I wish it wasn't over. I just wish he had kept power-pointing for ten minutes more…†That doesn’t happen. But why doesn’t it happen? The high-king of information...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Change Is Easier Than You Think
- In a fun and mind-turning essay, Michael T. Kanazawa argues People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying To Change Them It starts out with a cold slap in the face: "According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Exponential explosion of information.(A Member's Voice)
- There is an old legend (from India or Persia, I believe) about a very clever minister who presented a chessboard to the king to relieve him of his boredom. Pleased with the intricacy of the game, the king promised to reward the minister with a gift o...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- The Bee Side: Technology helps get message across.
- I hear that the boffins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT to you and me have recently developed an emotion sensor that can detect boredom. That might not sound like it's up there with the all-time great inventions to you, but to some I hear...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Pupils 'bored stupid'
- SECONDARY school students are bored in the classroom due to outdated courses, an OECD survey has found. The rate of boredom among Irish pupils is a staggering 67 per cent - the highest level of boredom reported in 27 countries surveyed. Emer Ni Chuagain,...
- Research articles 2002-11-24
- Turkcell 2007 Global Mobile Award Winner
- Turkcell Awarded "Best Broadcast Commercial" in the GSM Association's Global Mobile Awards 2007 for its Commercial "Turkcell-im geldi s?k?nt? bitti" (Turkcell-im's here, boredom's gone) ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (ISE: TCELL), Turkey's leading mobile operator, announced today that it received the "Best Broadcast Commercial" award for its commercial entitled...
- Research articles 2007-02-14
- The Week
- -- Maureen Dowd asked Rudolph Giuliani if he thought John Walker was a "poor soul," as President Bush has said, or would prefer to string him up. "'I could feel sorry for someone and still string 'em up,' said the former prosecutor." Now that's the kind of compassionate conservatism we...
- Research articles 2001-12-31
- B-School Blogs: Cross-Cultural Mishaps, the Value of Money, and How Being Bored is Good for You
- Happy New Year to all! Many business school bloggers have spent the last few weeks reveling in a much-deserved moment of peace and relaxation, but whether students reflected on the year gone by or revved up for 2009, here's a sampling of the view from the trenches. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Delivering Knock-out Presentations
- A presentation is an ideal environment in which to promote yourself, your business, or your ideas. You have an audience ready and waiting to hear from you, you can deal with any queries right there and then, and you can give them the tailored information they want to boot. For...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Tapping into Passion
- Employees are much more dedicated, much more productive, and much easier to manage when their work engages their passion; they generate their own momentum. Conversely, when a team member’s passion is not engaged, he or she is often dispirited, likely to shun responsibility, and unable to meet objectives.Successful start-up ventures...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Formal Book Review: The Four Hour Workweek
- From time to time I write longer book reviews on books I find particularly provocative. Previous formal book reviews have been on affirmative action, national security, the CIA and Afghanistan, atheism, the prodigious mind of David Foster Wallace, and 21st century college life according to Tom Wolfe. This review is...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- How to Change Limiting Beliefs
- The beliefs that drive your sales behaviors are the keys to becoming a successful sales pro. Change the beliefs, and you'll change the behaviors and get better results. Now, that's easy to say, but most sales pros have no idea how to change a belief. ...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- The Boom Years and Team Dynamics: What Not to Do
- The dot-com boom offered some valuable lessons in team dynamics, but also some cautionary tales. Flexibility, Not Ramping UpInnumerable were the times we heard the words “ramping up†in conference-room presentations during the boom. Everyone wanted to be ready for the mass adoption that was to come. People would soon...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Looking For a New Challenge
- It could be argued that society is moving backwards; that as adults, we're becoming more child-like—demanding instant and varied pleasures to make us happy instead of developing the maturity to delay gratification. But really, what's wrong with that? We have the technological innovations and resources to support our immediate desires...
- Articles 2007-11-09
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