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After 10 years of building an employee satisfaction culture at Prestwick House we surveyed our customers. Two separate groups surveyed at two different times of year and both groups responded similarly to the question,"Would you recommend this company to your colleagues?"

98% of PH customers said tha… Continue

Our cultural view of leadership was, to a large degree, poisoned by the early industrialists who built a system in which all decision making is pushed up the chain of command to a decision making class. All the thinking about how to do a job (everything that makes work nourishing and fulfilling) was the province of managers. In fact, Frederick Taylor famously said that anybody who has the physically ability to handle pig iron cannot have the mental ability to think about how to handle pig iron.… Continue

Working toward a "Building a Harmonious Workplace" policy that works for everyone, a colleague directed me to this article from the Atlantic that takes a humorous approach to the subject of introversion.

theAtlantic.com

While it's not a solution to our little policy dilemma (of trying to balance the company's need for everyone to apply some grease to the wheels once in a while with some employee's strong desire to be left alone) I do th… Continue

Not when the company is tanking.

Watch the videos embedded in the linked Boing Boing post and marvel at the ability of a company to be so deluded.

From the post:

CIRCUIT CITY PLAYED CREEPY TEAMBUILDING PROPAGANDA TO SELF ON DEATHBED

Near the end, electronics retailer Circuit City produced a series of shiny, happy video dreams for its employees to watch. Fantas

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