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Women Entrepreneurs: Tips for a Prosperous (and Sane!) Business
While studies show that both men and women are interested in financial freedom, women are more likely than men to cite “greater work-life balance” as an additional motivating factor in starting a business. A new study from Jane Out of the Box, an authority on women entrepreneurs, reveals a significant segment of women in business who’ve achieved their dreams of financial success, but who tend to be overwhelmed by the day-to-day demands of their business. This article provides important “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for duplicating the prosperity of the market segment known as “Go Jane Go”-while creating better balance in life.

What to Do When You're in Hot Water
I've said all along that the midlife transition is essentially a spiritual one. It's a transition from being externally-focused to becoming interiorly-focused. 'Maturity' in this perspective means shifting your focus from the superficial to the essential in your life.
Motivating Others
People are self-motivated. The task is to find out what needs and values motivate the individual internally, or more importantly, how to select people who will be naturally motivated by what the environment and job offers. Check out the list of questions to ask. It is an interesting paradox that as a parent, manager, supervisor, or owner, you can stifle motivation, but you cannot create it. If a person has been motivated in the past, but is not now, something may be going on at work or home which is stifling the person’s motivation.
Maximizing Results with Reward and Recognition
Does reward and recognition work? Want to learn how to squeeze that little bit extra out of people? Improve performance and increase results, read on to learn how...
Motivating employees
Often I get asked how to motivate people … how to motivate them to perform better, to want to do things or to want to buy your product. People are motivated only by two things – to move away from pain or a painful situation or towards something they want. The archetypal carrot and stick approach.
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.

8 Simple Ways To Start Writing
Having trouble focusing? Try setting a reward for yourself like "When I finish the first draft, I'll go out to lunch (or buy new shoes)." Or, "I'll edit this one more time, then go for a walk."

It Takes Money to Make Money - Yes It's True
Too many people are entering into working at home blindly and end up frustrated or throwing in the towel because they didn't plan accordingly. Unless you are extremely creative, with some special connections and a run of good luck, you cannot expect to start a business and not spend any money. I think at times an individual is so excited about the prospect of working at home that they jump in with both feet, but with no plan on what to do after they start their business. This is why I always stress to people who want to work at home to take their time, research the companies or ideas they are thinking about, and make a plan.
Carrots, Sticks and Management: Speaking of BS and Motivation
Do you or does your company have trouble distinguishing motivation and BS? Does your boss?
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.

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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.
Incorporating Training Allowances into Compensation Packages
Retaining quality employees is tougher than ever in today’s aggressive markets. Today’s worker tends to work numerous jobs before retirement, whereas decades past saw workers stay with one job for twenty or more years before moving on. With more jobs on the market, companies have more to offer future employees. On-the-job training is one carrot dangled to lure new employees.
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.

Motivating employees
Often I get asked how to motivate people … how to motivate them to perform better, to want to do things or to want to buy your product. People are motivated only by two things – to move away from pain or a painful situation or towards something they want. The archetypal carrot and stick approach.
Employee Training for Retention
Much is made of training employees to keep them around, but whether employee training for retention works or not remains to be seen with any long-term data. Keeping good employees is tough for business owners, so the carrot of training and improvement is often used to retain quality staff. But is this a cost-effective way to ensure a superior staff or is it too uncertain?
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.
Reward and Recognition Pathways and Pitfalls
Don't use money to try and shape behavior or boost performance. It rarely works. If you think it has in the past, what happened when you took the carrot away? No doubt, performance slipped and you were left with stimulus-dependent people looking for progressively bigger carrots. Unless people feel compensation and bonus systems are a major block, leave them alone.

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....
Holes in Labour's Health-By-Stealth Line
At my 5th birthday party, my mother served up jelly mixed with grated carrot. I clearly remember one of my cousins being aghast at this perversion of a sacred dessert. He viewed it as an attempt to poison us by stealth. I did not notice the carrot until it was pointed out to me, so it was probably a tactic my mother repeatedly used to great success.
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