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TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Report: Google Ties 25% of Employee Bonuses to Success in Social

BY Austin CarrThu Apr 7, 2011

According to Business Insider, Google CEO Larry Page sent out a memo to employees detailing how 25% of their annual bonuses will now be connected to how well Google pushes out its social strategy. READ»

DAN PINK   |  Comment

How to Motivate People: Skip the Bonus and Give Them a Real Project

BY Cliff KuangThu May 13, 2010

Social experiments have upended almost everything that modern management takes as a given.READ»

WALL STREET   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

BY James McIntoshWed May 12, 2010

Explaining the Wall Street mess:Here’s how I use motivation to explain the Wall Street mess.  Can you motivate others?  No.  Motivation is an internal desire, not an external force.Yes, it is possible to ‘get’ ...READ»

ANTI-CORPORATE ANGER   |  Comment

Anti-corporate vs. Anti-government Anger: Who to Trust?

BY Dr. Jim TaylorMon Mar 8, 2010

This post is not a partisan polemic intended to attack those who hold different views than I. Rather, it is an honest attempt to understand the reasoning behind those who have divergent beliefs about the anti-corporate and anti-government anger that is currently being expressed so viscerally by so many people in America. I hope that this post can act as a springboard for a substantial (and respectful) conversation about these forces that are growing in our society.READ»

BIG FINANCE   |  Comment

3 Words I Wish Big Finance Would Learn

BY Dr. Jim TaylorSun Feb 28, 2010

It has been shocking and bewildering to watch the behavior of some of the top banking CEOs in recent months, punctuated by the appearance of four of these executives before Congress last month. Some questions immediately pop into my mind. Do they follow the news? Have they no conscience? Do they not have public-relations people on retainer? The answer to all three is, apparently, no because it is clear that they are so far out of touch with reality that they are the equivalent of the Merry Pranksters of the 1960s tripping on acid.READ»

BONUS   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

BY James McIntoshWed Jan 27, 2010

Always hungry is not a bonus:Once on a walking safari in South Africa I almost became lunch for a charging lioness.  Now that it’s bonus season on Wall Street, I’d like to send a few bonus buccaneers on a walking African ...READ»

ECONOMY   |  Comment

Bonuses Versus the Big Picture

BY Jose RoncalTue Feb 3, 2009

2 February 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com   On his ninth day in office, President Obama took a broad swipe at Wall Street, calling the $18.4 billion in bonuses for 2008 "the height of irresponsibility" and ...READ»