EEA – THE BLOG
Amazon and the Bezos Leadership Experiment
Several weeks ago we posted a news insight article on Tony Hsieh’s bold experiment with holacracy at Zappos.com, a division of Amazon. The New York Times’ recent account of the culture at Amazon.com (see “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” ) highlights an entirely different approach to management at the parent company. […]
Enterprise Engagement and the Minimum Wage Debate
The facts speak for themselves: Increasing numbers of U.S. citizens believe that income inequality is a serious problem that requires government intervention. More and more states – even Republican-leaning ones – are passing, or seriously considering, laws imposing minimum wage increases. Because pay is a major issue related to engagement, one might expect us to […]
Perspectives of an Early Engagement Leader
While we at the EEA take great pride in having identified the emergence of engagement long before most, we didn’t invent the field. What is so exciting about this journey is the people we meet along the way who have reached very much the same conclusions through their own experience without knowing about the others […]
The Coffman Organization to Head Alliance of Marketing Firms Launching ‘The Engagement Agency’
The Coffman Organization, one of the nation’s leading engagement assessment and coaching forms, has joined an alliance of companies known as the The Engagement Agency to provide full-service engagement solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the country. “Organizations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on engagement surveys; incentive, loyalty, and recognition programs; communication and social […]
New Market Report Hugely Underestimates the Size of the Engagement Field
As someone long involved with research in various areas of engagement, no one is more suspicious than I am of market estimates. And this time I can categorically state that the Oakland, CA-based HR research firm Bersin & Associates got it totally wrong in its recently released market focus report on employee engagement. The firm […]
Recognition Meets Consumer
Rideau, a leading recognition company based in Montreal, has broken new ground in understanding the potential for the recognition field in the consumer marketing space. The old idea of separating consumer loyalty from employee recognition is so pre-enterprise engagement. Check out this recording on Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio program on a ground-breaking case study of […]
The EEA Social Footprint
