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Layoffs and productivity

On Company - Wednesday, January 28, 2009

If you lay off 5% of your workforce, you need 5.26% more productivity from your remaining staff. Morale is low, people are angry, scared, worried. How are you going to get more productivity from them? If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Maybe it is time to try something different.

What's Wrong With the Corporate World (Part 7)

On Company - Friday, November 09, 2007

Imagine that you work at this company.  Merry Christmas... "At our holiday party, our CEO ended his speech to everyone with 'enjoy your holidays because starting next year we will start having layoffs'". Wow.  My vision is a world where everyone loves their work.  One way I contribute to the realization of this vision is through enhancing relationships between members of corporate teams through team building programs.  [tag-tec]Team building[/tag-tec] is an imperative for every company that wants to keep its employees and have them be productive and committeed.  More on this later...

Superstars

On Company - Thursday, January 01, 1970

Good summary of an article on How to Manage Superstars. Check out Marjorie Treu's Team Fusion.


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