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The Failure to Engage: Understanding the Mechanism that Determines Employee Engagement and Micro-Innovation
By John Bernard
"Micro-innovation is the Holy Grail of modern management. Micro-innovation (incremental improvement) that is driven by employees is the secret to transforming the customer experience, accelerating revenue growth, and reducing costs. Yet, the level of employee engagement required for micro-innovation remains one of the most elusive outcomes in modern organizational life. Research shows in aggregate that employee engagement continues a 25-year decline. In our real-time economy, the most powerful value proposition is the ability to say "yes" to customer's unique needs, and to say it now. Only the people who work on the frontline of a business can take meaningful action in real time. Because of that, the full engagement of people is simply a competitive necessity."
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2012 Business Book Awards
By Porchlight
Thousands of business books are published each year, each with the potential to promote change and enlighten the way people think about business. We began recognizing these efforts in 2007 with the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, highlighting the best works in a number of categories. Each book is judged on the originality and applicability of its ideas and the quality of its content.
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Red Ink
By Porchlight
You may know David Wessel as the white bearded journalist from Washington Week. What you may not know even if you watch that show is how great a writer he is. He is the Wall Street Journal economics editor, has multiple Pulitzer Prizes, and when we were still reeling from financial catastrophe in 2009 he wrote a brilliant book, In Fed We Trust, about the folks putting out the fire that made me feel as the world might not end after all.
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Planned Productivity: Take Control of Your Time
By Sally Haldorson
New now on KnowledgeBlocks! Modern work environments are a productivity challenge for even the most dedicated employee. Workplaces are less structured and more efficient, so there aren't as many managers insuring noses stay bent to the grindstone.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Yes to the Mess
By Porchlight
Generally, we want to avoid the mess, the uncertainty, the chaos, yet as good as we become at managing and making decisions, there it is: The Mess. We can continue to work at managing it, which might burn us out. Or, we can find ways to work with the mess.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Book Review by Porchlight
People collect all manner of material goodness—cars, antiques, orchards, and art. . .
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On Reading
By Porchlight
You might come to this site because you're looking to buy boxes of books. Maybe you come here because you just want to see what we're talking about. Or maybe you've never been here before and want to see what it's all about.
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Become a Storyteller: Be a Better Leader
By Sally Haldorson
A good story isn't the sole property of the marketing or communications department. Anyone can master some basic storytelling techniques that will help earn trust, excite enthusiasm, convey authenticity. This is particularly important for leaders.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Best Business Writing 2012
Book Review by Porchlight
There is nothing that excites me quite as much as the English language when beautifully crafted, burdened with a purpose, and bearing the truth. I find it in my favorite poetry and great works of fiction that expose our human core, in artfully crafted works of nonfiction that explore the human story in all its facets and fascination, and yes, even in the best that business books have to offer. But, I find it most often when I sit down with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel every day over lunch, or when I follow the thread of a story contained in the a link in an email from ProPublica, when I relax with The New Yorker, Fast Company, and Foreign Affairs at home, or when I listen to a well-crafted story on This American Life or a great interview with Charlie Rose.
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Bright Lights, No City
By Porchlight
Think for a moment about the concept of "crazy business idea. " Likely, it conjures thoughts of some wild product that makes little sense, which is then attempted to be sold to people with a lot of sense. But consider rechargeable batteries, a very sensible product, and a seemingly sound business venture.
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