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What if companies used a Premier League relegation concept on salaries?

Hola. My name’s Ted Bauer. ‘Tis my blog. I write a lot about organizational behavior, leadership, management, marketing, the future of work, and other assorted topics. Recently I’ve been thinking that it’s pretty cool that random people may stumble across… Continue Reading

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Better meetings: Thoughtful question first, No-Rehash Rule

Meetings are a total joke, scourge, and waste of time at most organizations. That video above gets it right in a humorous way. (Watch it; it’s short and worth your entertainment value.) I’ve written about meetings a few times, notably… Continue Reading

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Future of Work: Respect is everything

Came across some research from SHRM yesterday; I believe the entire package is called the “2015 Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report.” Here’s the link. There’s a couple of interesting figures in there, notably this bad boy: So … let’s chop this… Continue Reading

How to present better: Get excited

Written about this a bunch of times before, because I think it’s amazing how infrequently we discuss the idea of better, more effective presentations — especially when you consider that if you want to get an idea/point/concept across to someone,… Continue Reading

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Can we teach empathy, especially to adults?

How to teach empathy

An important question of the modern age. Continue Reading

Homophily and business

Loosely translated, homophily is your desire and ability to gravitate towards like-minded individuals. A lot of people would think this is a very good/strong element of business and work and organizations and workplaces, because — like-minded people tend to be… Continue Reading

How to present better: Do your slides last

Personally hate PowerPoint and think it’s mostly totally worthless for presentations — and also think we get a lot of things wrong about presentations in general, including but not limited to: How we teach them How we focus them so… Continue Reading

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Stop and think about what makes you human

I don’t mean to get super deep here or anything. You’re theoretically alive and reading this and human and you have day-to-day responsibilities and people you interact with and friends and family. Most people don’t think about it much deeper… Continue Reading