Word: watsonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says the burgeoning field of employee engagement, a movement that aims to quantify what, exactly, a company gets when it puts money into bonding with its workers. Consultancies such as Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt Associates and the Gallup Organization measure how "engaged" workers are and then counsel companies on how to ratchet up those scores. The result is a slew of initiatives--like frequently telling workers how they generate value and offering them free retraining to move from one division to another--that go far beyond the rudimentary concept of motivating people with pay to get them to work...
...them well struck, in his six innings of work. A 30-foot RBI single by Penn shortstop Dan Williams in the fifth that pushed the deficit to 4-0 typified his outing. “Four runs is like 40 right now,” Walsh said. Junior Ryan Watson had an unsightly relief appearance in the seventh—two walks, two hit batsmen—but Stoeckel surprisingly came in from shortstop to take the hill and managed to staunch the bleeding. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard sailed to a fourth-place team finish in the Women’s President’s Trophy, led by the A-boat of Wareham and junior Megan Watson. The pair took second in the A division over ten race, tallying just 41 points, including a victory in the seventh of the weekend’s ten races...
Last weekend, Sea Shepherd was again in the news, the Canadian Coast Guard alleging that the Farley Mowat had “grazed” one of its icebreakers. Watson is adamant that the Coast Guard actually rammed his vessel, and says he has videotape evidence to support the claim. Either way, the incident had the desired effect of putting Sea Shepherd back in the news. In some sense, that is a victory for violence over reason. But it may also represent the best hope for Canada’s seals...
...Watson says, “pirates get things done...