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Here’s a small book I enjoyed: Revved was written by one of the authors of Fish [which we’ve already reviewed], and published in 2006 by McGraw-Hill. Harry Paul & Ross Reck, PhD follow a similar framework for their story using the example of an office worker looking for ways to change her impact on her environment, and with her staff. Whereas Fish focused on motivational principals, Revved moves further along this path with more practical advise, basically distilled down into these three steps:

1.     Win Them Over

2.     Blow Them Away

3.     Keep Them Revved

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            A fundamental business principal we believe in here at Kudos is that a happy, engaged, employee makes a better employee, and the consequent workplace becomes a win-win environment, for employee & employer. A classic business book from 2000, Fish!  by Stephen C. Lundin, PhD, Harry Paul and John Christensen [Hyperion Books], builds on this core principal with their “Fish Philosophy” outlined in four basic concepts:

One of the books that has fundamentally inspired the Kudos team is First, Break All the Rules – What the World’s Greatest Managers do Differently [1999, Simon & Schuster], by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman from the Gallup Organization. The authors conducted an in-depth research study involving +80K managers across NA in various industries, trying to determine how the best managers find, keep and nurture the best talent? They also wanted to formulate a measure for employee satisfaction/engagement – and they began with this question:

“Wouldn’t it be great, if at work at least, we didn’t have to confront our insecurities on a daily basis?”

In my first blog post introducing Daniel Pink’s book Drive, I outlined the basic core of its motivational principles. Today, I’d like to retrace the basics of Motivation 2.0 (M2):

Drive is a great read that promotes a fresh perspective on how to practice business in this new Millennium that is more humanistic, while remaining profitable. The Drive philosophy is grounded in Motivation Theory, and moves beyond the dated robotic focus on Rewards & Recognition, i.e. the “carrots & sticks” approach to human motivation, which Mr. Pink refers to as Motivation 2.0.

For those of you unable to attend the Webinar hosted by Rypple, with Mr. Daniel Pink live, following here is a quick update of events for your feedback & review:

For those of you unable to attend the HubSpot Webinar, hosted by Dan Zarella, Inbound Social Media Scientist (@HubSpot), following here is a quick update of events for your feedback & review: