10 ways to retain your best employees - The Business Journals If “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” then why not imitate the companies in Fortune’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" competition? Since the 2014 list was just released, small business owners should take valuable lessons from how America's biggest companies keep their best employees and lower their employee turnover rate. A good employee is invaluable. Many smaller companies think they can't mimic what companies with deeper pockets are doing, but they're wrong. So, you aren’t the size of Google. While smaller businesses may not be able to offer educational scholarships, home loans, company stocks or other pricey incentives to recruit top millennial talent, they can do some of the things these companies do. With these motivators in mind, here are a few suggestions:
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. As scientists now understand it, creativity is far more complex than the right-left brain distinction would have us think (the theory being that left brain = rational and analytical, right brain = creative and emotional). While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. They “fail up.”
World Economic Forum embraces Cradle to Cradle methods for circular economy - About RSM The World Economic Forum (WEF) launched a major new business-led initiative at the Forum in Davos, Switzerland, entitled “Project Mainstream”, aimed at scaling up the circular economy. The new approach is substantively supported by Cradle to Cradle (C2C) scientific methods developed by Professor Michael Braungart and his teams at the C2C Chair at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and his scientific institute EPEA. With this initiative, the WEF, McKinsey & Company and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation call for a new approach to material flows in the circular economy. The circular economy refers to an industrial economy that is restorative by intention; aims to rely on renewable energy; minimises, tracks, and hopefully eliminates the use of toxic chemicals; and eradicates waste through careful design. The project is accompanied by the WEF publication Towards the circular economy: accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains.
ENFJ Profile Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging by Joe Butt Profile: ENFJ Revision: 3.0 Date of Revision: 23 Feb 2005 ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. ENFJs are global learners. ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. ENFJs know and appreciate people. TRADEMARK: "The first shall be last" This refers to the open-door policy of ENFJs. Functional Analysis: Extraverted Feeling Extraverted Feeling rules the ENFJ's psyche. Introverted iNtuition Like their INFJ cousins, ENFJs are blessed through introverted intuition with clarity of perception in the inner, unconscious world. The dynamic nature of their intuition moves ENFJs from one project to another with the assurance that the next one will be perfect, or much more nearly so than the last. Extraverted Sensing Sensing is extraverted. Introverted Thinking Famous ENFJs: Fictional ENFJs:
Google's Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant | Wired Business Image: esenkartal/Getty Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. Yesterday, Google confirmed that it has purchased a stealthy artificial intelligence startup called DeepMind. Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. The DeepMind acquisition closely follows Google’s $3.2 billion purchase of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest, a slew of cutting-edge robotics companies, and another AI startup known as DNNresearch. Google is looking to spread smart computer hardware into so many parts of our everyday lives — from our homes and our cars to our bodies — but perhaps more importantly, it’s developing a new type of artificial intelligence that can help operate these devices, as well as its many existing web and smartphone services. The New AI