A fairly common statement heard these days in organisations is “high employee satisfaction translates to higher earnings”. Gautam Gosh pointed me to a recent paper by Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at Wharton which compares; stock returns of companies with high employee satisfaction and compares them to various benchmarks — the broader market, peer firmsContinue reading “Satisfaction does equal higher returns”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Quiting your job?
Here is a bit of humour. When most people quit they hand in a resignation letter and tend to speak with their boss. Try this for an approach, link. Maybe not :-), It is not real, but it is real funny. If you did get a resignation letter like this you would certainly wonder aboutContinue reading “Quiting your job?”
Too busy for balance?
Work life balance seems to be one of those things everyone is always searching for but no one really has, ok except for Markus Frind. There are never enough hours in my day to do everything I want or need to. Today I read a great post from Kenny Moore, who got me hooked withContinue reading “Too busy for balance?”
Enterprise Search
For me one of the keys to being a productive knowledge worker is having access to the right information at the right time. This gets even more important as workers begin to self-publish, basically share their knowledge, behind the firewall using blogs, wikis, forums etc. A organisation needs to leverage this data to turn itContinue reading “Enterprise Search”
Useless facts about Twitter
I was reading Twitter Facts during lunch and thought, “how many of us are in Australia?” so I spent a few minutes to find out. I used 2 different tools, first TwitDir and then Twitter’s in built search. Just to note both search tools have limits. TwitDir only searches public timelines, while both search Usernames,Continue reading “Useless facts about Twitter”
More on censorship
A follow up post, I found a few more articles on this whole censorship issue in Australia from numerous sources and some more thoughts. There has been a huge discussion on Twitter between social media and web folks who I personally consider experts in the online world but many of them seem confused. Not good.Continue reading “More on censorship”
Mandatory censorship of the internet
The new Labour Government had announced there intend as part of the election campaign to introduce filtering of the internet and on Dec 31st they provided further details on what would be happening with mandatory filtering of the Internet by ISPs. Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provideContinue reading “Mandatory censorship of the internet”
Top 25 HR blogs
There must be something in the water cause here is a list of the Top 25 HR blogs, there is some cross over with the Top 100 list from yesterday, and a couple of new ones which were noticeably absent from the first list, eg The Human Capitalist by Jason Corsello.
Taking control of information overload
Something I have been struggling with for about 18 months is information overload, who hasn’t, especially with regard to email and RSS feeds and to a lesser extend podcasts. To date my method of coping has been to unsubscribe (I removed about 500 blog feeds) or ignore the stream of information (which I do withContinue reading “Taking control of information overload”
Listing of Top 100 HR blogs
Came across a list of the Top 100 HR blogs from back in September. An interesting read and well worth checking them out if you are looking to expand your feeds. A couple of thoughts. First it is good to see some of the older blogs (2 year +) there and a lot of newContinue reading “Listing of Top 100 HR blogs”
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