Links to previous posts from Incentive Intelligence dealing with this issue...2009 Will be a Problem for Incentive Travel Awards...Is Your Incentive Program "Senate Ready?"Damned if you do... Damned... Summary Only. We had some issues with links and such in the full email subscriptions so we're tryi...

You may remember a post I did a while back on The Loyalty Expo - a conference and learning experience put on by Loyalty 360.  I mentioned in my post that Loyalty 360 was different in that they looked at loyalty through a wider lens that most - not purely focused on customers/consumers, but understo...

Yesterday was a tough one for Incentive Intelligence.  Not only did I get my butt-kicked in the comments on my post for Fistful of Talent (link over and see what was said - don't agree with all the comments but it's great conversation) - but my buddy at HR Capitalist took some shots at incentive tr...

I just posted about travel incentives a few minutes ago... I wish I'd hit my RSS reader first. Here's a great article from CNN on the value of "experiences" versus "possessions" and I think it goes to the heart of meetings and incentive travel from a "happiness" perspective as well as engaged workfo...

It's tough out there.  More jobs lost, no real "stimulus" yet.  Companies hunkering down, noses to the grindstone doing everything possible to stay out of the limelight.  No one wants to see their name in the paper any more - let alone have to sit at the feet of arguably the most hypocritical and...

This little story is imperfect but I think it does a pretty good job of showing the hypocrisy of our lawmakers when it comes to incentives and rewards (read - AIG/Wells Fargo and anyone else who is a recipient of Federal bailout funds in one way or another.) A Fractured Fairy Tale Meet Bob.  Bob ha...

This post started as a simple - "here's an article about incentives - ain't that great" - but has morphed into a morality play in my mind.  Here's the scenario... Nortel has filed for bankruptcy protection. Nortel is laying off workers to reduce costs. Nortel is asking the courts to allow the compa...

This post has little to do with last night's episode of the The Colbert Report except for the fact that the words "escape velocity" were mentioned and it immediately hit me that influence and incentive/reward initiatives have an escape velocity. See video at 3:25 into the clip. Stay with me camera g...

I had a huge, tough-to-read, heavily footnoted and researched post for today... but... Naah.  Let' go with a little video break and we'll get back to the hard stuff next week.  Have a great weekend. This video is of Dan Ariely - author of Predictably Irrational.  I've highlighted some...

Got this through my google reader last night... Toshiba Keeps the Channel Healthy.  The article starts out... "He received a phone call informing him that he had won a brand new car from the Toshiba staff incentive program. He couldn’t believe his luck when he read from the Toshiba website confir...