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February 2009 Blog Posts (6)

Cost Effective Strategies for Retaining Your Top Employees

Even given today’s economic uncertainty, creating a reward system that attracts and retains talented employees is important for the success of any organization. While you may not be able to afford to offer your employees regular pay increases, there are some other simple and cost effective ways to reward your workers.

To help keep your best workers around, consider implementing some of the initiatives found below:

Find out what your employees want. Pay isn’t always most… Continue

Added by William G. Stevens on February 26, 2009 at 17:28 — 2 Comments

Meaning, Understanding, and the Art of Listening.

As regular readers of my posts will know, in the last month or so I have diversified the activities of Katugas. Last year we spent our time categorising open ended answers; this year we work on social media monitoring and text analysis as well. This has meant taking on new tools and a steep learning curve in terms of how to use them effectively and meaningfully. It has also meant that there is some degree of confusion among clients and contacts about what we do, who we are, and what we want to… Continue

Added by Nigel Legg on February 26, 2009 at 11:36 — 1 Comment

Riverside in Florida

I find myself often wondering about how to carve out and protect collective space for quiet, reflection, deep listening.

I think many "management renegades" have learned to do this for themselves, not just to be good leaders, but to create some kind of life balance towards wholeness.

Yet what is possible if we would be more able to be silent together, to be deep listening together, letting go together?.....To borrow a writing process metaphor, it would be like dedicating… Continue

Added by Holly Masturzo on February 22, 2009 at 12:55 — 3 Comments

Moon Shots & "Management 2.0".

Yesterday, Jack Martin Leith pointed me to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review by Gary Hamel (which resulted from a meeting of scholars and business leaders in May 2008), and a new Ning network set up for the "renegades" to discuss the topics raised in the article. Since then, I have not been able to stop thinking about the article and it's implications. While using the article as the basis for this post, the interpretation is my own.

The main thrust of the article seems… Continue

Added by Nigel Legg on February 22, 2009 at 0:29 — No Comments