I was once asked by Forbes to offer up some experience around some actions
companies can take during tough economic times like these to maintain or even
increase employee happiness and wellbeing. We all know that without a happy
and thriving team, there's no growth, especially in a recession.
At DotNext we strive to employ a two pronged approach to increasing team
happiness and wellbeing during recession times like these.
First Method:
First, we immediately roll out substantial, structured and predictable
performance based compensation in the form of bonuses and spiffs. Nearly
anyone, including managers and directors, can earn additional compensation if
they are able to perform above general standards on a challenge by challenge
basis. As a result, regardless of economic slow downs, team members are still
able to maintain control over their financial destiny.
Second... (more)
San Francisco Business Times : “Reply.com’s online sales lead system
tallies big growth” As a founder and former CTO and Chief of Product of
Reply!, it was great to see Reply! featured in the San Francisco Business
Times today. Reply! was founded in June of 2001 by Payam Zamani, Myself and
John Truchard and is a [...]
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I was asked by Forbes this week to offer up some experience around some
actions companies can take during tough economic times like these to maintain
or even increase employee happiness and wellbeing. We all know that without a
happy and thriving team, there’s no growth, especially in a recession. At
DotNext we strive to employ a [...]
... (more)
The March Twitter MacBook Air Random Giveaway is now officially complete and
the winner has been selected!
A big thank you to over 1500 contestants and participants, even those that
joined Twitter simply to be eligible for this Apple Laptop giveaway. Thank
you for all the great tweets, follows and fun comments. So who’s the
lucky winner?
Congratulations To : @ShawnaCoronado You Are The Lucky Random Winner of A
Brand New MacBook Air!
Send Shawna a Congratulations Tweet! Once again, a big thank you to all the
participants and friends! But there is more… Stay tuned at ... (more)
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If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of
human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has
created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressive
support of rapidly developing applications has and will continue to empower
every individual to co-create what is deemed as “important” on the Web.
The Real Time Web serves as both the database that informs us of what is
happening right “Now” and the human touch to the content th... (more)
Ben Behrouzi, Founder of DotNext and Co-founder of Reply.com, is a serial entrepreneur from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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