Employee Engagement

Rewards and Motivation

Posted ago by Matthew

Are we motivated by rewards?  Conventional practice would say “yes”, but science would say otherwise. In the laboratory, rats are rewarded with food.  In the classroom the top students are rewarded with A grades, and in the workplace, the best …

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Goldcorp Case Study

Posted ago by Matthew

A fascinating story about turning conventional wisdom on its head and how a business profited from utlising the brain-trust of the whole world. In January 1848, a work crew at John Sutter’s mill, near Sacramento, California, came across a few …

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James Dyson – Biography of an Entrepreneur

Posted ago by Matthew

James Dyson was born in England, one of three children.  His father, Alec, died when he was nine.  “Not having a father, particularly at that time, was very unusual.  I felt different.  I was on my own.  I can’t quite …

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Failing Forward – John C. Maxwell

Posted ago by Matthew

I recently read this book and it was the first of John Maxwell’s that I read.  I have since read a couple of others of his and will review them too. Firstly the title of this book intrigued me because …

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