Crash Piles Pressure on Lufthansa CEO Spohr. FRANKFURT, Germany — The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the helm has had to grapple with weak earnings, labor unrest and tough competition from lower-cost carriers. Analysts say he has made the correct moves, notably in his swift expressions of sympathy for the 149 victims and the relatives of those who died last week. French officials say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into a mountainside in the French Alps. They point to Lufthansa's admission that Lubitz had told them during his training that he had been treated for serious depression as an example of owning up quickly to bad news. Spohr, he added, has "checked all the boxes" in responding to the crash and treating the situation with "the gravitas it requires.
" Spohr, 48, is far from done with the grim ordeal. "Is his number going to come up? Is Money a Motivator? Yes, No and Maybe! This week we are pleased to welcome Ted Szianiawski as our guest writer. Ted is a founding principal of HRGroup, LLC. The question “Is Money a Motivator?” Has been the subject of countless articles and books, debated among academics and management “experts” for decades and is almost always included as a topic in management and leadership development programs. In a Forbes magazine article—“Why Money Isn’t a Motivator” (Jacobs)—the writer was critiquing the on-going government bailouts and particularly the use of mandated caps on executive compensation.
For years you have heard statement like, “Different strokes for different folks,” “to each his own,” and “people do things for their own reasons, not yours.” Therefore, we believe strongly that the question “Is Money a Motivator?” Recommended for YouWebcast: Growth at a Scale Up: How to Grow When You're No Longer a Startup An assessment we use in our consulting practice is “Workplace Motivators™.” Is Money a Motivator? Pound erases most of April gains amid worries of Brexit a week ahead of election. The pound has erased most of its April gains in the last week as investors weighed risks of a hung parliament and the UK leaving the European Union ahead of the election. Last Wednesday (27 April), the sterling touched a two-month high of 1.5499 against the US dollar where the pair was up 2% from the previous week's close.
However, the GBP/USD dropped to 1.5133 as of Friday's (1 May) close, translating to a 0.36% loss on the week. The pound is now targeting 1.5050 and then 1.5000 on the downside and a break of 1.4800 will increase the risk of new lows beyond the mid-April six-year low of 1.4565. Traders said it is not concerns about economic policies of the new government but worries related to the UK's membership of the EU that have weighed down the UK currency in the penultimate week of the election.
Conservatives have called for a referendum to decide the future of UK-EU relations and a win by that side will likely see a sharp slide in stocks and the currency. Role of Perception in Consumer Behavior. What Naming a Puppy Says About Decision-Making. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. ... naming a puppy should be simple ... so we ended up getting dark we nominee ... and then it took about a month of having the dog ... and going through several names before she ... pinpointed the exact name he wanted ... status ... we recently witnessed tricky marital exchange between my sister great on her husband over naming a new copy ... he asked sisters aunts family members I ... found a spot ...
I had huge for us ... simmer ... I'm the ... and Charlie with high and ... throughout the journey ... for a second ... psychology researchers say this to basic decision-making styles ... maximizers and Satisfries ... my sister Rachel is a maximizers ... Avoid Being Misunderstood In Conversations by Altering Your Perception. Personality Types - Discovering Personalities. Riots in Baltimore are the result of poor political decision-making - The Breeze: Opinion. It’s amazing how people have a way of jumping to conclusions and labelling situations before the real conflict can be identified. From what I’ve heard, people have turned the recent Baltimore rioting into a racial discussion. Allegedly, the overly dominant white governmental figure is simply “flexing his muscle” in Baltimore by oppressing the misunderstood, woeful black man.
I’ll never understand this. What’s going on in Baltimore isn’t a racially driven black and white scenario; it’s not an oppressive “keep the poor man down” situation. It’s the result of years of uninformed political decision-making that’s left a population uneducated, uncared for and overlooked by the very people elected to serve them. The recent violence in Baltimore over the past few days isn’t the root of the problem, but the symptom of a population at the hands of misguided politicians.
“We needed to leave the stadium because the game had been called off,” Maniatakis explained. This man has $220 million and a plan to take down Amazon | The Verge. Marc Lore does not remain still. During a recent lunch he fidgeted in his chair, stood up, stretched, then took a seat, and resumed eating. "We have an open office. I stand all day, I never sit," he explains. "This feels uncomfortable. " Lore has been very busy of late building Jet, an ambitious e-commerce startup trying to take the shopping club model pioneered by Costco and reimagine it for an online world.
Today the company is launching in private beta to its first 10,000 customers, a slice of the 360,000 people who signed up for early access. Round two against Amazon Lore built his prior company, Quidsi, into a leading online retailer across verticals like Diapers.com and Soap.com. The defeat was painful, but that experience also gave Lore an idea for a new kind of e-commerce company. Innovating around price, not service So how does Jet innovate around price?
The second and more interesting aspect of Jet is its "Smart Cart" system. Can you create an online only Costco? Riots in Baltimore are the result of poor political decision-making - The Breeze: Opinion. Microsoft aims for 1 billion devices running Windows 10. Microsoft has a plan for Windows 10 to get onto all sorts of devices -- a billion of them, before too long. "Within two to three years of Windows 10's release, there will be 1 billion devices running Windows 10," Terry Myerson, Microsoft's vice president of operating systems, said Wednesday during the keynote presentation at the company's annual Build developer conference in San Francisco. For now, the starting point for that timetable remains "this summer," a broad target that Microsoft revealed in March, though the chief executive of chipmaker AMD, a longtime Microsoft partner, earlier this month spoke of a release date in late July. At Build on Wednesday, Microsoft's parade of executives failed to address the matter.
Windows 10 has the potential to solve some of Microsoft's most pressing problems. That is, Microsoft is making a promise to developers and consumers that Windows 10 will be a single platform on which to run all their apps across all their devices. Glogin?mobile=1&URI= Understanding Perception Is Key To Communication. New Tesla Battery Could End Electricity Bills. Tesla Motors may be close to eliminating the electric bill, at least for some consumers. Company CEO Elon Musk is expected on Thursday to unveil batteries capable of powering a home or a business, giving consumers with solar panels a chance to generate and store their own energy, and to potentially cut the cord with traditional power providers.
Musk – also chairman of clean energy company SolarCity – revealed his plans in a recent earnings call, letting slip that his company will “unveil the Tesla home battery … that will be for use in people’s houses or businesses, fairly soon.” The battery is expected to employ the lithium-ion technology used in Tesla's Model S vehicles and be able to store energy for buildings to use during an emergency power outage. But it would still need to draw energy from an outside source – making owners of solar panels a target audience. The battery would continue Tesla’s efforts to reshape the energy business. Solar photovoltaic installations by state. 18 Behaviors of Emotionally Intelligent People. When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.
This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success. Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as being the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack. The connection is so strong that 90 percent of top performers have high emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the "something" in each of us that is a bit intangible. Despite the significance of EQ, its intangible nature makes it difficult to measure and to know what to do to improve it if you're lacking. You have a robust emotional vocabulary. All people experience emotions, but it is a select few who can accurately identify them as they occur. You're curious about people. You embrace change. You know your strengths and weaknesses. How personality plays a role in effective leadership.
Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux | June 01 2013 | 4:57 PM When executives identify admirable leaders, they often underestimate their struggle with certain elements of their personality. In truth, the majority of effective leaders even “naturals” like Richard Branson or PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi had to work hard to manage their personality traits to get where they are today. There are countless personality traits that distinguish us from one another, some inherited while others are learned. But recent research has converged toward five broad dimensions, each comprising a cluster of traits, dubbed the “Big Five”. Unfortunately, the traits that serve executives well in one leadership position do not always help in another. When moving up the hierarchy into new roles or environments, executives may need to either play up or rein in different facets of their personality.
The Big Five: How much is too much? Leaders at all levels are under intense pressure to push harder and to go faster. 1. 2. 3. Organizational Behavior Perceptions & Attributes. People’s perceptions and attributions influence how they behave in their organization. Perception describes the way people filter, organize and interpret sensory information. Attribution explains how people act, determining how people react to the actions of others as well. Accurate perception allows employees to interpret what they see and hear in the workplace effectively to make decisions, complete tasks and act in ethical manner. Faulty perceptions lead to problems in the organization, such as stereotyping, that lead people to erroneously make assumptions.
Managing Perceptions When people in organizations find themselves in unfamiliar, ambiguous situations, they tend to have difficulty coping. Handling Attributions People commonly attribute success to skill, luck or chance. Related Reading: How to Make an Organization Effective in Organizational Behavior Explaining Behavior People tend to evaluate other people on their ability, effort or personality.
Minimizing Bias References (2) Are You Emotionally Intelligent? Here's How to Know for Sure. LinkedIn Influencer, Dr. Travis Bradberry, published this post originally on LinkedIn. When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success.
Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as being the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack. The connection is so strong that 90% of top performers have high emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. Despite the significance of EQ, its intangible nature makes it very difficult to know how much you have and what you can do to improve if you’re lacking.
Unfortunately, quality (scientifically valid) EQ tests aren’t free. You Have a Robust Emotional Vocabulary You’re Curious about People. Are You a Type A or B Personality? What Makes A Life Worth Living? | WUWM. Part 6 of the TED Radio Hour episode Maslow's Human Needs About Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's TED Talk Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says we can achieve one of the most elusive needs — self-actualization — by finding a state of "flow" in our work or our hobbies.
About Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a leading researcher in positive psychology. Copyright 2015 NPR. Transcript So once you make it beyond the basic needs - physiological needs, security needs - beyond the needs of self-esteem and love and belonging, what could possibly be left? ABRAHAM MASLOW: Now, the idea is this - what are the motivations of people who are beyond the needs of the ordinary style because they're already satisfied?
RAZ: In 1966, at the time of this recording, Abraham Maslow described what was then a new idea to psychology - the final stage of his hierarchy of needs. RAZ: This is Margie Lachman. RAZ: Wow. RAZ: Abraham Maslow died suddenly of a heart attack in 1970. RAZ: Oh, oh, great, OK. Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine. Big Five Personality Traits: Take The Test To Know Yourself And Your Future Health. Personality is the reason you like some people but not others. It is why you prefer noisy parties to translated novels. It is a predictor, some people believe, of your relationship satisfaction and even your waistline. Personality, as defined by the American Psychological Association, refers to “individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.” To describe these differences, countless psychologists have come up with innumerable personality scales and measurements.
However, over time, consensus formed with the many bespectacled researchers finally reaching common ground in the 1980s. While each of us has a unique personality, psychologists unanimously say, there are five basic dimensions that can be used to characterize a person — and that do not overlap. The Big Five, as they are known, are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN). Take the test here. Does Technology Impact a Child's Emotional Intelligence? | Suren Ramasubbu.
Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves define Emotional Intelligence (EI) as the "ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. " How has technology impacted EI, especially among digital natives? Daniel Goleman, author of several books on the subject, says that the expanding hours spent alone with gadgets and digital tools could lower EI due to shrinkages in the time young people spend in face-to-face interactions. Quite rightly, as technologies divert our attention away from a realistic present, there exists the danger of disconnect that decreases EI. But can the effect be quantified, or at least qualified?
Or is it hokum? EI is measured by the dimensions of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. How does technology impact each of these dimensions? The role of technology in motivation is one area that has elicited much controversy. Celtics. Thinking and Feeling in the Classroom | Daniel Goleman. Your personality can affect your productivity—and salary. 4 Personality Traits That Make You an Effective Leader. Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren't Taught In School. Emotional Intelligence Doesn’t Translate Across Borders. Do you have emotional intelligence? It's crucial for great leadership - Phila... Which of these 5 dysfunctional personality types are you? Why Emotional Learning May Be As Important As The ABCs : NPR Ed. Effective Hiring Can Help Police Departments Build Community Trust. Don’t Force Decisions; Just Back Off and Adjust. Or Go for a Walk. Former factory floor worker helps lead £26m management buyout of Jablite.
Today’s Personality Tests Raise the Bar for Job Seekers. ESPN sues Verizon over new stripped-down 'Custom TV' plan. A professor fails his entire class and his university intervenes. No School Monday Morning, Heald and Everest Colleges Closing. Will the Real Introverts Please Stand Up? | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network. Uk.businessinsider. Personality test based on C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers type theory. This Myers-Briggs Personality Type Makes the Most Money, Study Finds. Your personality can affect your productivity—and salary. Maslow's Human Needs : TED Radio Hour. ESPN fighting Verizon FIOS choices for customers - Apr. 20, 2015. Can You Learn to Lead? The Effects of Twitter in an Online Learning Environment. Don't blame your child for not being motivated at school. Remind Yourself that Emotions Don't Matter to Muster Motivation.
Albertsons, Safeway Confirm Agreements to Sell 168 Stores in Eight States to Four Buyers. Seattle CEO to cut his pay so every worker earns $70,000. Aaron Hernandez verdict: Guilty of murder. Top 10 Qualities of Extremely Successful People. Netflix signs up new members like crazy in record-breaking quarter. NASA probe beams back its first color image of Pluto. Zappos to employees: Get behind our ‘no bosses’ approach, or leave with severance. Can You Learn to Lead? The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis. Without Strategic Leadership, Knowledge Management Is Doomed to Fail.
Troy Carson: Rolling Stones being sued for article. Social Media: Changing the rules of business ethics | NIU Newsroom. Zappos will operate with no bosses, titles or hierarchy; Would you? Uk.businessinsider. Why No One Uses the Corporate Social Network. Formulas that drive Google, Klout, Facebook help researchers understand organized cybercrime. Why is the NFL a nonprofit? | News. More than 15% of NFL players go bankrupt within 12 years of retiring. Amazon, Google and More Are Drawn to Home Services Market.
Nokia explores sale of map business, source says. Yahoo earnings soar on Alibaba windfall. Is ad blocking theft? | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Gerhard Stiene. Obama makes push for stronger cyber security laws. Realtime chart of "the button" game on Reddit. YouTube Kids app exposes children to too many ads, some groups say. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 Great Free iPad Apps for Profe...
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