Last week I was combing CNN.com on my lunch break. When I first came across author Max Barry’s article "Why I fled the office cubicle," I thought it was going to just be about how this 20th century feature of workplace culture and design can hinder employee engagement and ideation from the bottom up. It [...]
Longterm readers of this blog know that I’ve been on a business acronym kick lately. Here’s one of my more recent posts on a few of them that leaders and managers should learn or get a refresher on to do better in getting employees engaged, as a means to boost their commitment and productivity, and [...]
Last week SmartBrief on Leadership called attention to an article on Business-Strategy-Innovation.com which discussed how some big companies scale their innovation by seeding "independent spinoffs to develop high-risk, high-reward projects." With their huge employee rosters and advantage in terms of working capital and infrastructure, it makes sense that large companies that believe they can see [...]
www.minaeffect.com – Video from Group 1 – Just Another Mina Monday by Ahoy Productions! About the Mina MovieMaker experience! This was a team building exercise held at the Le Meridien Mina Seyahi for all managers, where 6 groups created short commercials (movies) advertising the hotel. Mina Moviemaker – Group 1 Movie – Just Another Mina [...]
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