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It’s About Time to End the Stone Age of Management

Do you have to fill in performance appraisals once or twice a year in your workplace? Does this form filling process feel meaningful to you? Do the forms have any connection to your daily work? According to research, man is happiest when he collaborates with other people and pursues meaningful goals. The best way to encourage him for better performance is to give him positive feedback on his actions often enough.

Slush 2014 in Retrospect

Slush 2014 is over and little by little our lives are returning to normal. This was Cloudriven’s first year in Slush: we learned a lot and we will definitely be back next year. Our team had loads of good meetings with potential investors, who really liked our approach to performance management.

Cloudriven Challenges Management Conceptions in Slush – “Forget the Stick. There’s a New Carrot in Town”

Most of the Finnish companies are managing performance from the past instead of looking into the future, claims Cloudriven’s CEO Jukka Koskenkanto. He says that companies should react to changes faster and invest more in employee engagement and motivation. Meaningful work and agility are not the sole privilege of growth companies.

Why Habits Matter?

American business reporter and author Charles Duhigg published his bestseller book The Power of Habit a couple of years ago. The book’s main conclusion is that habits guide both our working lives and our personal lives more than we can even imagine. When our brains turn on a behavior model that has become a habit, we repeat the familiar routines compulsively.

Repetition Is the Mother of Learning

When we’re putting my teachings into practice at my trainings, many people tend to ask for advice on things I just taught them. This usually makes me wonder, did the learner listen to what I just said, because it should be impossible to forget that fast, right? However, according to Ebbinghaus’s definition of the forgetting curve almost 60 percent of newly learned things are forgotten during the first hour.