Weekly Reports

NON-FINANCIAL MOTIVATORS REMAIN MORE EFFECTIVE than the highest-rated financial incentives (salary, bonus or equity-stock options), even in this economy. A McKinsey survey of more than 1,000 C-level Execs, Managers & Directors found that employee priorities continue to be: (1) “Praise... Continue

BEHAVIORAL AND COMMUNICATION STYLE IMPACTS HOW A PERSON FILTERS INFORMATION and the degree to which they can (or not) be guided by professional or personal advice. This applies to all persons: customers, clients, employees, children, friends & relatives. One profile... Continue

SINCE ONLY 1/10TH OF 1% OF PEOPLE RESPOND TO UNSOLICITED EMAIL ADVERTISING, and under 3% to physical junk mail, most of the $170 billion spent yearly by direct marketers simply “annoys people, creates landfill and clutters spam filters.” But marketers... Continue

EIGHTY-MILLION TEEN TO 20-SOMETHING KIDS form the “biggest age grouping in American history… and are the most threatening yet exciting generation since baby boomers brought about social revolution – not because they’re trying to take over the establishment, but because... Continue

“NEARLY HALF THE WORLD’S YOUNG PEOPLE are either outside the formal economy or contributing less productively than they could… Almost 300 million 15 to 24-year olds are neither working nor studying… many employed only with informal and intermittent jobs.” Meanwhile,... Continue