Jake, a young marketing whiz, thought he’d found his perfect match in a well-funded technology startup in the academic sector. (It’s a real company, but I’ve changed all names.) For the first few ...

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Motivation, especially in performance, can be an enigma. We have been led to believe that motivation is like a barometer and is either high, medium, or low. In reality, motivation is more like a three ...

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If you feel that people are the most valuable asset at a business–and we certainly do–it’s important to keep everyone motivated and sailing towards the same port. Recently, we wrote about three things ...

A bad manager and feeling invisible (or undervalued) are the top demotivators in the workplace, according to new research by Reward Gateway. The study found that 18% of Australian employees don’t feel ...

What are the highest-performing lean organizations doing that others are either unable or unwilling to do? What enables them to develop what can accurately be described as a lean culture of continuous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author examines the use of proverbs in Polish demotivators, an Internet memetic genre. The article discusses the place of proverbs in ...