Top 100 Companies Increase YouTube Usage by Nearly Forty Percent

Top 100 Companies Increase YouTube Usage by Nearly Forty Percent: Burson-Marsteller recently released the results of its third annual Global Social Media Check-Up Study and YouTube came out as the big winner. The yearly report examines social media usage among the Fortune Global 100 companies, including Ford, Sony, Walmart, and HP. 82% of these companies are now maintaining YouTube accounts, the biggest jump up across [...]

Leadership Case: Program Jokowi untuk Jakarta Baru

Kasus kepemimpinan yang sangat baik. Visioner, konsep pemimpin politik baru, dimana dalam era baru ini kita menuntut pemimpin yang bisa kerja dan punya wawasan, dekat dengan persoalan masyarakat aktual, dan yang punya integritas bukan yang cari uang, bukan yang membiarkan semua praktek korup dan permainan uang. Praktik transparansi, good governance, manajemen dan pengendalian yang baik, problem solver di lapangan, bukan yang duduk di kantor. Kerja keras, melenyapkan semua pemborosan, penyelesaian pekerjaan langsung ke akarnya, alokasi anggaran yang baik, keputusan cepat, policy yang mengikuti best practice dan perkembangan model manajemen terbaik di dunia. Manajemen yang dilakukan nyaris sama dengan kunci keberhasilan perusahaan-perusahaan sukses. 

101 Fun Ways to Learn a Language

101 Fun Ways to Learn a Language: 07/15/2012 - Living abroad gives you the opportunity to study languages in non-traditional settings. For example, you can interact with locals and read primary texts to learn useful phrases you don't always hear in classrooms. This article introduces 101 fun ways you can improve your skills, including watching a "cheesy sitcom" or attending a sporting event. We hope it provides you with interesting ideas. ...

3 Key Points to Sustainable Employee Engagement

3 Key Points to Sustainable Employee Engagement: Recognize This! – To sustain high employee engagement over time requires intervention to ensure employees have what they need to do good work in an environment that is conducive to doing so.
Yesterday I wrote about the findings of multiple recent global employee engagement research reports, including Towers Watson’s latest Global Workforce Study. Today, I want to look more closely at Towers Watson’s new idea of “Sustainable Employee Engagement.”

I’ve written about this idea before, but in ...

7 Ways to Be Productive When There’s Nothing to Do

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Meet The 22 Most Influential Advertising Bloggers

Meet The 22 Most Influential Advertising Bloggers:

There are too many advertising blogs. Way too many. Ironically, considering their topic is communications, most of them are unreadable thanks to a combination of poor content and loopy design.
We scoured more than 300 marketing blogs to see which are actually must-reads. We narrowed them down to just 22 (not counting Business Insider Advertising, of course!).
Bookmark these — or add them to your RSS feed — and your bases will be covered.