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Diversify Your Link Building Efforts
Good inbound links for your website can be hard to come by, but if you try enough different strategies, something always sticks.
Increasing Sales – A Manager's Dilemma
How do you motivate sales people who don't seem to want to be motivated? In this article you will learn what works better than either the carrot or the stick. Includes a sidebar that offers secrets to motivating sales people.
Sales Secrets - The Best Advice
Some advice you receive naturally falls by the wayside. Some advice sticks to your ribs for a lifetime. See some of the advice that has made a difference.
Words Can Make A Difference
As a youngster I heard a little rhyme which said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." That's untrue. Words can give us hope and encouragement, or they can break our spirits and dash our hopes.

Incentives and Rewards
There are two phrases that always make my heart sink. The first of these is "appraisal system". And the second is "incentives plan," "bonus structure", call it what you will. Needless to say, these two subjects are closely related cousins. Underpinning both is the "carrot and stick" approach to motivation; a school of inspiration which has its origins in the management of donkeys.

Be the CEO of Your Job
Sometimes a person says one sentence that just sticks with you and is so perfect that it defines a whole category of behavior. Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, riffed on the phrase “be the CEO of your job” in a board meeting a year or so ago. It stuck with me and I’ve thought about it many times since.
Behavioural Intelligence, Impact and Influence in Negotiation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Rewards and Punishment
When influencing others you seek to affect the behaviours, thinking and feelings of others through what you say or do. This is part of the process in negotiations, presentations and meetings designed to engage and build commitments. If your preferred style of influencing is Rewards and Punishment you use the carrot and stick as your primary tools. The juicy carrot reward tempts the donkey to move and the punishment stick reminds him who is in charge if he doesn’t. Of course you don’t use methods as crude as this with people but the principles are similar.
Why do you need Key Performance Indicators?
If you want the right results, make sure you’re using the right measuring sticks
Motivation - Some Things Never Change
Motivation and our natural tendency to use 'carrot and stick' to motivate - and why it has the opposite effect!
Eat Your Vegetables... Or ELSE!
"Your pet carrot will live," the doctor said, "but it's going to be a vegetable for the rest of its life." Maybe you've heard that old joke, and you've probably heard the old expression "You are what you eat." Synthesize these two, and add the recent brainless activity of a guv'mint school lunch inspector, and you see how serious our dear leaders are about eating vegetables....
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