Posts Tagged ‘incentive’

To Be Motivated and Successful, First Forget How You Feel

You can’t make yourself feel happy or sad, nor can you send away whatever feelings do have, however hard you try. So waiting to do something until you feel “in the mood,” or basing your choice of actions on how you feel at the time, is to hand over control of your life to the varying state of your stomach, the effect of the weather, or the dizzying gyrations of… » Continue

January 8 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: career, emotion, incentive, motivation | 27 comments»

Quality Leadership

Suppose someone asked you to list the most important qualities you would find in an outstanding leader. What would you say? Toughness? Authority? Decisiveness, perhaps? Tenacity? You could make a case for all of these. Today’s conventional thinking about leadership tends to stress the more active, resolute qualities in a leader. Leaders are expected to get results and remain effective under the constant pressure of globalized markets.

What I want to… » Continue

August 14 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, civilized-work, effectiveness, generosity, incentive, leadership, listening, Management, manager, mercy, micro-management, organization, performance, restraint, slow-leadership, work-life | no comments»

True Darwinism

Everyone knows that Charles Darwin said life was “the survival of the fittest.” Everyone knows it, but it isn’t true. » Continue

November 21 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: incentive, leadership, learning, Lifehack, Management, motivation, organization, Productivity, success, work-life | 16 comments»

How Do You Say “Thank You”?

Bert Webb over Open Loops talks about some ideas to reward your employees. In the organization especially the non-profits, where you do not have full control on salary, how do you reward your employees for the extra efforts? Bert mentions it is not only monetary incentives that you can do to recognize ones performance and efforts, there are couple of other ways: