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Data from the General Social Survey (an annual project of the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center) suggests that job satisfaction is derived primarily from four factors: learning opportunities and variety, relationships with managers and coworkers, low stress, and extrinsic benefits (including pay and bonuses). Consider how well your organization meets these key drivers and which ones need improving.
— Matthew Bidwell

Author: Matthew Bidwell | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Many market leaders do not truly understand why they are number one, largely because many of the executives who are running market-leading businesses inherited the business and their market leadership. They can no more explain their success than a trust fund kid can explain how to build wealth. Because the strengths of their business are often inherited rather than something they built themselves, executives may … [ Read more ]
— Eddie Yoon, Christopher Lochhead, Katrina Kirsch

Authors: Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, Katrina Kirsch | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Psychological safety effectively functions as an equalizer—enabling diverse and disadvantaged employee groups to achieve the same levels of workplace satisfaction as their more advantaged colleagues.
— Nadjia Yousif, Ashley Dartnell, Gretchen May, Elizabeth Knarr

Authors: Ashley Dartnell, Elizabeth Knarr, Gretchen May, Nadjia Yousif | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

[Inflation] matters in terms of the distribution of income. Broadly speaking, inflation is a debtor’s friend. And it is the creditor’s nightmare. […] It’s a terrible thing. It’s unfair. It’s not democratic. It’s a terrible thing to unleash from a society. And I think many of us have forgotten what damage it can do.
— Stephen King

Author: Stephen King | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Economics

Inflation tends to benefit debtors at the expense of creditors, and if the government happens to be one of the biggest debtors—and it’s normally the case that they are—then inflation is a very useful hidden tax. Because effectively it’s a tax on people’s cash wealth. If you’re not anticipating the inflation, it wipes out your cash savings. Then the government is effectively a winner. And … [ Read more ]
— Stephen King

Author: Stephen King | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Economics

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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The Economist

As for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore Roosevelt

The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts

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