the only route to employee happiness that also benefits shareholders is through a sense of fulfillment resulting from an important job done well.

Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates - Rob Markey - Harvard Business Review

Respondents said high-quality answers often come from unexpected sources, indicating that social tools are cultivating advanced knowledge sharing

Enterprise 2.0 Payoffs: Sales, Innovation, Knowledge Sharing - The BrainYard - InformationWeek

More than 60% of firms who did invest in collaborative frameworks achieved big gains in knowledge sharing and communication accuracy between marketing and sales

Enterprise 2.0 Payoffs: Sales, Innovation, Knowledge Sharing - The BrainYard - InformationWeek

Strong cultures empower their people, they recognize their talents, and give them a very clear role with responsibilities they’re accountable for.

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

Employees are actively and passionately engaged in the business, operating from a sense of confidence and empowerment rather than navigating their days through miserably extensive procedures and mind-numbing bureaucracy.

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

How should HR move forward in its quest for integration putting talent first? By first eliminating the silos and integrating management processes, while focusing on improving employee engagement.

Report: HR Still Struggling to be a Strategic Business Partner

What’s happening in society at large as people come of age seems to matter most in determining the starting point for their core beliefs

Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? : Discovery News

To design your online communities, as a starting point you need to understand the broader context of how your customers use your services. What are their unmet needs? How might online interaction among customers themselves help to address these unmet needs or opportunities?

Why most online communities are failures

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