How do you motivate employees when your cash cow is low on milk—when there is no longer room in the budget for the usual financial incentives like pay raises and bonuses?
The answer is simple: Make work meaningful. Build on your people’s natural desire to see how their work fits in with the grand scheme of [...]
Archive for December, 2009
The ROI on Meaningful Work
Is It Time to Kill the Myers-Briggs?
The question came from a guest lecture my colleagues and I gave last week to an undergrad Organizational Behavior class at Wharton. While I was there a fun debate erupted about why the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is still so widely used despite it’s extremely suspect validity statistics.
The argument against the Myers-Briggs is that it’s based [...]
The Impulse Factor
