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The Somali Pirates

Friday, April 1st, 2011

And what they can teach us about reward and recognition.

If you’re familiar with the employee recognition space at all, you will be familiar with the ‘cash vs. tangible reward’ argument.

For those of you that are not familiar, the argument goes something like this. If a company formally recognizes an employee for whatever reason – great attitude, team player, sales targets met, innovation, and so on – the reward should be tangible rather than cash. Cash, it is claimed, will just be subsumed into the employees’ personal cash flow and when they spend it, be it on a Starbucks coffee, gas for the car or the weekly groceries, they are unlikely to associate the purchase with being recognized. (more…)

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“I Want To Hold Your Hand”

Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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I must admit I’ve never been a great Beatles fan. I was a 60’s child but a little too late to experience the free thinking sixties and all that went with them. That said I understand the Beatles significance and the difference they made to the world I now live in. Music has always been one of my great passions and many great songs remind me of a specific time or period of my life. I think it’s the same for most of us.

Grass Roots has just published a major piece of research conducted amongst large corporations – Fortune 500 or Financial Times Global 500 constituents. We’ve called it ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ after that famous Beatles song, (more on that later). Our industry, the performance improvement industry, like many others has been talking about globalization for years. We wanted to understand what these corporations were thinking about taking their employee reward and recognition programs global and their definition of the global space. The results are fascinating and I urge you to download a copy of the research findings: “I want to hold you hand” whitepaper. (more…)

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With the number of cell phone subscribers in the world approaching 5 billion, more people have access to a phone than to good sanitation.

Monday, April 19th, 2010

 

What’s that got to do with motivation?

There was a recent report from the United Nations that stated that the number of cell phone subscribers in the world is just about to pass 5 billion. By their reckoning, more people will have a cell phone than have access to clean sanitation.

What does that tell us about the motivation of human beings? In all my years of devising reward, recognition and incentive programs, I have always urged clients to think about what I call the “Three A’s” when it comes to establishing what is going to motivate your audience. (more…)

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So what were the big stories at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas?

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Overwhelmingly everyone was talking about Apps. For those of you not yet addicted to your Apple iPhone, and increasingly the BlackBerry, Apps are simple software applications designed to run on your smart phone and specifically to fulfill a single requirement. You download them from the Internet. Apple has a whole App Store with thousands available. Be it ordering a pizza, checking your stock prices or using Twitter and Facebook from your smart phone, there is an App for just about everything. In fact, someone told me about an App called DrunkDial, (I think that’s what it was called). You install it on your phone and connect it to the phone numbers of friends you have a tendency to call when you’ve had one too many and potentially embarrass or compromise yourself. Launch DrunkDial when you hit the bar and bingo, it stops you dialing those unfortunate friends. (more…)

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Congratulations to Mario, our CIO of the Year by SFBJ

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Last month we had a news release about Mario winning CIO of the Year, but I wanted to post the main points here. Congratulations to Mario, one of the pieces that makes us the best global incentive provider in the industry.

  • Mario has been named CIO of the Year by the South Florida Business Journal. The Journal’s awards program looked to trendsetting South Florida companies that have led the way with innovations, products and services, to choose their award winners.
  • He is responsible for global technology, infrastructure and information security with an emphasis on delivery optimization, flexibility and best in breed service excellence.
  • Mario began his carreer 19 years ago in the South Florida community and is keenly interested in emerging technologies in the customer engagement arena (with an emphasis on security and privacy protections).
  • and my own quote from the article…

    “The South Florida Business Journal’s recognition of Mario is very well-deserved. His commitment to a collaborative management style, his contributions as a member of the executive management team and his ability to leverage global technology to identify creative solutions to address customer needs is truly outstanding. We recognize the significant contributions Mario is making to our company and our clients and we are delighted that these achievements have also been recognized by the esteemed panel of SFBJ judges.”

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