Do your people have ‘change fatigue?’
Posted on 17. May, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Some 43 percent of North American workers think their teams are suffering from “change fatigue,” according to new data from Towers Watson. The researchers explain the concept this way: People have been asked to work longer hours and do more with less for so long that four out of ten don’t think their teams have [...]
How do we go from ‘distrust’ to ‘All In?’
Posted on 07. May, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Thanks for all your great questions about your team cultures. Here’s a recent inquiry: Q: I’m managing a team that has past experience and history with management being very controlling and not very trusting. That is where I am having trouble getting them (my employees) “all in.” What are some good ways to get them [...]
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Question from a reader in Australia The ”Tall Poppy Syndrome” seems pervasive here. Are there specific tricks to combatting this phenomenon for managers? Note: Tall Poppy Syndrome is a term often used in British Commonwealth countries to describe employees who do exceptional work but who are resented or criticized because their achievements elevate them above peers. [...]
Get ‘All In’ Today!
Posted on 03. Apr, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
It’s finally here. A year ago we began our most ambitious work to date, a journey to find out what the world’s best managers did differently during this most recent recession. The findings are revealed today in our new book All In: How the best managers create a culture of belief and drive big results. If [...]
Managers … Limber Up
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Our new book All In comes out next week. Here’s just one idea from the 300,000-person research study that is at the heart of the book: In this struggling economy, high-performance managers are vastly more agile at helping guide employees through the vagaries of the marketplace—and that can lead to stunning financial results. When Towers Watson’s [...]
How to stand out from the other baby-faced rookies
Posted on 21. Mar, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Photo source: Corbis Images; royalty free, creative image Guest Post by TopOnlineColleges.com Young workers are known for their energy, enthusiasm, and willingness to learn, but many times their lack of experience and professionalism comes back to bite them when they want a raise, promotion, or just to be taken seriously. If [...]
When the world learns your faults
Posted on 16. Mar, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Most executives believe that the vast majority of employees are on board with their company’s culture, but what if their squeaky wheels are actually the ones telling the truth? On Wednesday, a mid-level executive at Goldman Sachs quit his job and made his concerns about the company’s culture shift very public—in an Op-Ed piece in [...]
Culture Change … One Nice Lady at a Time
Posted on 13. Mar, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
Guest Post By Don Stuckey Director of Talent Management, Baptist Health System At Baptist Health System we are on a journey. The journey is to become a company that has a culture of appreciation. Culture changes do not come easy. Culture changes do not happen overnight. Culture change does not happen because we want it to happen. [...]
The Power of the Pen
Posted on 06. Mar, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
You never know the lasting impact of your handwritten thank you notes. Here’s a pretty amazing example: A week ago I met a former Navy officer after speaking at the National Business Aviation Association’s annual meeting. He said that while serving as a commander in the Navy, he realized his sailors hardly ever told their [...]
Why it take ‘discipline’ to put down your phone
Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 by Adrian in Blog, Orange
On the day most of America was watching the Super Bowl, I had the chance to conduct a leadership workshop with the international marketing team from Intel. The group was smart, challenging, but also focused—and I mean uber-focused. In fact, throughout the three hours I spent with the team, I didn’t see a single person [...]
About Adrian Gostick
Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader on workplace strategy and the author of several successful books on employee engagement. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a regular New York Times bestseller, and 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. His latest book, The Orange Revolution, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller."
The Carrot Principle
Human performance accelerated? Is this book about the work place or the human race?
With breakthrough research of 200,000 people over ten years from The Jackson Organization, and massive, new global data collected by Towers Perrin, The Carrot Principle demonstrates how constructive praise and meaningful rewards powerfully motivates people from every walk of life and inspires employees to excel, engage, and bring their best to work every day.
The Orange Revolution
Following the enormous popularity of their bestselling The Carrot Principle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return with a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. The powerful research reported inThe Orange Revolution reveals that the true driver of exceptional success for great companies is not a genius CEO. Breakthrough success is driven by a particular breed of breakthrough team that generates its own momentum.
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