CEO policy

Can’t buy employee motivation (Infographic)

May 2, 2013

Here is an interesting infographic Salesforce.com published on its blog about How to Motivate Your Employees, with the main message that money is not the top motivator. This is a topic I’ll keep covering along with employee engagement, because they are integral to ensuring high performance in companies. Late last year I discussed Daniel Pink’s outstanding TED presentation on The Puzzle of Motivation, which goes into more detail about how intrinsic motivators are more effective than extrinsic ones. I highly recommend his book also:  Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

How to Motivate Your Employees

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Do more connected CEOs have better company performance?

April 26, 2013

http://www.texasenterprise.utexas.edu/article/how-ceos-social-life-affects-company-performance

The answer is yes, and it’s more than anecdotal. Texas Enterprise shares the business and public policy knowledge created at The University of Texas at Austin and published an article recently detailing the research of assistant professor Cesare Fracassi, who studies executives’ social networks. He recently finished a nine-year study comparing the social ties between 30,860 executives at 2,059 companies to decisions those companies made, especially investment patterns. His conclusion in a nutshell:

“There is evidence that suggests that where the CEO and directors are more socially involved, the company is more profitable,” Fracassi says. “The information they receive helps the company to make the right decisions.”

Read the full article at TexasEnterprise.com

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