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Is friendship a good measure of employee engagement?

The measure of friendship on employee engagement has been touted by Gallup for the longest time. In their employee engagement surveys, one of the questions employees have to answer is: “Do you have a best

How to Hire Successfully in the 21st Century

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Organisation Culture / Performance / Personality / No Comments / August 18, 2015

In an HBR article titled The Big Idea: 21st-Century Talent Spotting, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, senior advisor at global executives search firm Egon Zehnder and the author of “It’s Not the How or the What but the

Do Happy Employees Make Successful Companies?

by Monica Mok / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Organisation Culture / Team Building / No Comments / August 4, 2015

NOTE: This article first appeared on LinkedIn in June 2014. There has been so much focus on Employee Happiness recently. There is even a National Workplace Happiness Survey Information Session coming up soon right here in

The Downside of Hiring Lower Wage Workers

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Interviewing / Leadership & Management / Performance / Strategy / No Comments / July 21, 2015

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); I recently came across a very interesting article in the Harvard Business Review. In this article, the author

Assessing the Dark Side of Your Candidates

by Monica Mok / Blogs / Interviewing / Strategy / No Comments / July 14, 2015

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); A recent doctoral study of 3200 candidates by Christian Enger Gimsø at BI Norwegian Business School found

What We Can Learn from the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Organisation Culture / Performance / Strategy / Team Building / No Comments / July 7, 2015

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); It was 1986. It was a cold January morning at Cape Canaveral. Engineers had been frantically preparing for

Articles & posts that you may find interesting

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / June 30, 2015

Here are some articles and blogs I came across recently that you might find interesting. All consolidated here for your convenience. Read them at your own convenience. Enjoy! How Not to Choose a Manager This is an interesting

One Thing You Can Do to Improve Team Performance

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Organisation Culture / Performance / Team Building / No Comments / June 23, 2015

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); Why do most teams and organisations under-perform? Even if you hired all the right people into your

How to be a Better Manager – 4 Things You Can Do Today

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Employee Engagement / Leadership & Management / Personality / Team Building / No Comments / June 16, 2015

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-36052328-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); setTimeout(“_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’15_seconds’, ‘read’])???,15000); It does not matter if you are a team manager leading a team of 5 or a

Stop Hiring Your Purple Cow!

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Strategy / No Comments / June 9, 2015

Yes, Purple Cow. This was a concept popularized by Seth Godin in his bestselling book Purple Cow. The basic concept of the Purple Cow is to stand out and be insanely different from your competitors. According

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