Journals To Boardrooms

Employees spend roughly 1.25 days per week on work designed to look productive rather than be productive. The question organizations should be asking is not why employees behave this way. It is what the organization did to make this rational.

Most succession planning looks backward, at past performance and accumulated experience. Personality research suggests there is a forward-looking signal available that most organizations have not yet built into their frameworks.

The real test of a recognition program is not whether people attend the ceremony. It is whether they feel differently about their work the following Monday morning.