NEUROSCIENCE & EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Daniel Cable, Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, has written an excellent book, Alive at Work, that explains the neuroscience of helping employees love what they do. Cable’s research concluded that there is a part of the human brain called the seeking system that “creates the natural impulse to [...]
It's over twenty years since Jim Collins and Jerry Porras published their landmark book Built to Last, but the lessons we learned back then are applicable today. In the book, Collins and Porras identified eighteen companies (Disney, P&G, Marriott, Nordstrom, General Electric, etc.) that had significantly out-performed financial markets over a minimum fifty year period while [...]
Governments in the western world are constantly complaining about the lack of innovation in their respective countries. Their solution inevitably is to provide financial incentives to encourage corporate executives to invest in R&D and new product development. While these incentives might be helpful, they fail to address the major issues concerning the failure of companies [...]
During the 1970s, Procter & Gamble, a world leader in consumer packaged goods with brands like Crest and Tide, was caught off guard when a competitor, Colgate, launched a new product Irish Spring. The green-striped Irish Spring was the first such soap bar launched in North America and proved to be quite successful. This didn't [...]
