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The Core Values Book

Written by Rene Boer on March 24, 2011

After completing the Core Values exercise for your organization (learn how on pages 34-45 of Traction) you can make them come alive with a Core Values Speech (see examples on pages 39-44 of Traction) and also with your company’s Core Values Book. This book captures stories from employees, customers and vendors about how your company’s values resonate with them. Let them tell a story about how one or more of your values supported a fellow employee or how it gave a customer a reason to return.

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Setting Standards with the People Analyzer

Written by Ed Callahan on February 24, 2011

It's a generally held opinion that you only get into the Football Hall of Fame as a quarterback if you have won a Super Bowl. Whether you agree with that unwritten quarterback rule or not, the point is that the Hall of Fame for all sports requires that for an athlete to be elected, the athlete must achieve beyond very high standards indeed.

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Disengaged Employees

Written by Rene Boer on February 14, 2011

It’s estimated that uninspired, disengaged employees cost American business more than $350 billion annually. Over the last decade, a Gallup Poll of 10 million employees revealed that two thirds felt they were not given the opportunity to do what they do best every day.

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Improving Employee Productivity

Written by Rene Boer on November 8, 2010

For those of you who never took, or slept through High School Latin, Mater Artium Necessitas means “Necessity is the Mother of Invention.”

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