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Motivation: the creation of stimuli, incentives, and working environments which enable people to perform to the best of their ability in pursuit of organizational success. Motivation...; Motivation definition on BNET »

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Recession Survival Strategies: Has the recession put your organization in a choke hold? Here’s how to survive — even thrive — in the face of budget cuts, layoffs, and sub-zero morale.Beyond the balance sheet, there’s another way to tell that recession has set in — and it might be even more disconcerting than...; Tags: Motivation, Team, Management, Downturn, Economy, Recession, Nicole Solis, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Workforce Management, Balance Sheets, Strategy, Layoff, BNET Feature Package, Crummy Job; Articles 2008-06-23
Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gallo |Book Brief: The book "Fire Them Up" reveals the seven simple secrets of motivation as practiced by the world's most inspiring business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators. Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo shows how improving your communication skills will empower your professional – and personal-- life.; Tags: Strategy, Motivation, Inspiration, Fire Them Up, Carmine Gallo, Book Briefs, Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Education; Videos 2007-12-20
How to Handle a Demotivating Boss.: A reader writes: Great 7 steps for motivation. How do you handle it when your manager ignores your motivation, or worse, tells you your motivation is irrelevant and that your sole motivation should be to make the numbers? In that post (Get Motivated. Here's How.)...; Tags: Management, Strategy, Leadership, Sales Strategy, Reader, Motivation, Boss, Geoffrey James, Sales; Blog posts 2007-11-19
Get Motivated. Here's How.: It's not hard to get motivated. In fact, it's easy. For example, right now I'm motivated to play a computer game. But I'm writing my blog instead, because I'm also motivated to make this blog successful. The trick about motivation isn't simply to...; Tags: Geoffrey James, Personal Technology, Internet, Management, Strategy, Games, Blogging, Leadership, Motivation, Goal, Purpose; Blog posts 2007-11-14
Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard: Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...; Tags: investment decision, business process, technique, BPR, standards, financial analysis, Total Quality Management, Strategic Planning, motivation, decision-making, vision, supplier, monitor, financial, strategy, to, Balanced Scorecard, BNET Editorial, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance Management, Quality, Marketing Research, Marketing, Performance, Team; Articles 2007-10-03

How to Succeed on Your Own Terms: Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and publisher of Selling Power magazine, interviews Patrick Sweeney, a Senior VP of Caliper Corporation, about strategies to success in sales.; Tags: Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Workforce management, talent, Sales Tips, Motivation, Sales Management, Success, Sales, Management, VP, Selling Power, Strategy; Videos 2007-09-07
A Postcard From Europe: The Real Motivation Behind BPM: To simply talk of improving quality, managing process thinking, changing organizations, or automating existing processes is to miss the real motivation behind Business Process Management BPM. This article discusses why BPM is not truly embedded in the management thinking and the boardrooms. It suggests that for colleagues in the boardroom...; Tags: Business Process, BPM, Motivation, Boardroom, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software; White papers 2004-05-01
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard BSC as a management-control and strategy communication device. This study first reviews management control and communication literatures that identify attributes of effective control and communication of strategy. Second, the study offers a model of control and communication applicable to...; Tags: BSC, Balanced Scorecard, manufacturing, motivation, paper, strategy; Case studies 2003-04-01
Total Performance Measurement - Turning Strategy Into Action: The paper discusses the multiple roles a performance measurement system plays in an organization's control, information, and motivation aspects. It also examines the various dimensions in which a performance measurement system must work effectively. The paper describes some pitfalls of a poorly designed measurement system and how to avoid them....; Tags: Strategy, Performance, Motivation, Performance Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Strategies For Addressing NDDOT Employee Retention And Motivation: From the executive summary: ‘Human capital is the most critical asset in determining the success of an organization. Therefore, it is important to address issues that adversely affect the contributions that human capital can make. The idea accounts for why organizations have become more interested in assessing their own health...; Tags: Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Motivation, U.S. Department Of Transportation, Strategy, Organization; White papers 2002-12-01
Yet Another Role for Team Building and Work Motivation - Enabler of Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing: This paper reports on the methodologies used and the findings of the research conducted by the Enterprise Social Learning Architecture ESLA Task into learning processes occurring in a strategic headquarters within the Australian Defence Organisation ADO. The research focused on identifying processes and strategies that enable social learning in view...; Tags: Team-building, Knowledge, Motivation, Secretary, Capability, Team Management, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software; White papers 2002-05-06
Synergies in Strategic Alliances: Motivation and Outcomes of Complementary and Synergistic Knowledge Networks: This paper aims at contributing to the research concerning alliance dynamics by combining elements from research considering motives for alliance formation and alliance outcomes. This paper draws on the resource-based view of the firm, suggesting that firms' competitive advantages derive from their preferential access to idiosyncratic resources, especially tacit knowledge-related...; Tags: Strategic Alliance, Management, Strategy, Motivation, Alliance; White papers 2000-10-23
Human Motivation And Organizational Mobilization: From the executive summary: ‘Organizations change by changing the behaviors of individuals. People, however, do not like to change. Therefore, organizational change requires a strategy and a structure that incorporates awareness of individuals’ key drivers. Psychological research has identified three key emotional drivers, known as motives, which account for majority...; Tags: Strategy, Management, Productivity, Leadership, Motivation, Motive; White papers 2000-07-01
The Link Between Motivation and Innovation: Every government agency has a number of front-line employees who have a gift for identifying better ways of doing things. Just about everyone else have good ideas from time to time as well. The question is does management encourage everyone to contribute their ideas and then implement the best ones?...; Tags: Innovation, Motivation, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers
Motivation of Leaders: Leaders may well have grand visions of very different futures in which the world is changed in some way presumably for the better. If they can communicate that vision to others, effectively 'Infecting' them with the idea, then this will create a sustaining motivational force in others towards a common...; Tags: Strategy, Management, Leadership, Motivation, Vision, Leader; White papers

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Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to Recession: FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to RecessionC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As the economic downturn causes consumers to reprioritize their spending habits and forces consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers to reevaluate their...; Articles 2009-06-08
Callidus Software Holds Free Webinar: "Are You Maximizing Your Cash and Non-Cash Rewards to Boost Employee Performance?": WHO: Dan Horne, Associate Professor of Marketing at Providence College, with Vishrut Parikh, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Callidus Software (NASDAQ: CALD), and Adam Berenson, EVP of Corporate Development of...; Articles 2008-09-30
Expert Group Initiates Aggressive Sales Strategy Based on Government's $700 Billion Bail-Out Plan: Expert Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EXPT) is pleasedto announce that the Company has initiated an aggressive sales strategy asa result of the U.S. Treasury's anticipated $700 billion bail-out ofmortgage giants like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Pending approval from theBush Administration, the plan includes the government purchasing the assetsof the...; Articles 2008-09-29
Sino-Global Appoints Dong Xun Yi as Chief Operating Officer: BEIJING, Sept. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. ("Sino-Global"), a leading, non-state-owned provider of shipping agency services operating primarily in China, today announced the appointment of Mr. Dong Xun Yi as chief operating officer, effective October 1. "We are pleased to welcome Mr. Dong to our...; Articles 2008-09-29
N. Korea bars inspectors from N-plant: VIENNA, Austria -- North Korea moved closer to restarting its nuclear arms program Wednesday, barring U.N. inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant and announcing it will reactivate the facility that provided the material for its atomic test blast. The move fed fears about a resurgent nuclear...; Articles 2008-09-25