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  • On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

    December 17, 2010

    Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes
    adoption, enterprise 2.0, productivity
     

    We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance.

    A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.

    Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?

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  • What a Difference a Minute Makes

    November 1, 2010

    Back2Basics, Sharepoint, Solutions, time savers
    email, productivity
     

    OK, so the song talks about a day and we’re talking about a minute, but allow me some creative license here. The recent SharePoint challenge demonstrates how real life users can save about a minute each time they use the harmon.ie sidebar to access sharepoint, to upload an email to SharePoint or upload a document and attach A link […]

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  • Avoiding Distractions

    September 14, 2010

    distraction aids, distraction blockers, distractions, knowledge workers, productivity tip, Strategies
    productivity
     

    The first word in the blog title – Distracted – is really relevant to this post.   As knowledge workers,  we face distractions more and more often in our work day that send our productivity plummeting and do little more than annoy us. So how …

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  • National’s plans for FTTH

    April 23, 2008

    Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    bb, ftth, national, productivity
     

    Everyone will by now have seen National’s plans unveiled yesterday for a $1.5b investment in FTTH. John Key’s announcement is below; Lots of commentary about this already, Rod is pretty positive as it reasonably neatly dovetails with the work…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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