2 Posts found for Author: Jeffrey Hollender

In a hierarchy, the lion’s share of recognition and recompense goes to those who hold the biggest titles. The real heroes are left unsung.

Linden Lab’s Remedy: The community—not some select group of corporate overlords—does the rewarding. …It does this through a software tool, called the Rewarder.

Each quarter, every associate is given an equal share of a portion of Linden’s net proft—recently, about one thousand … [ Read more ]

Author: Jeffrey Hollender | Source: “The Death and Life of Corporate Responsibility” | Original Publication: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab’s charismatic founder and chairman, took one long night to build a simple but potent tool for community building. He calls it the “Love Machine.” It’s a Web page that lets any of Linden’s roughly three hundred associates zap a quick-hit message of appreciation to a colleague.

Say a coder beats a do-or-die deadline for patching a troublesome bug that’s infected Second Life’s … [ Read more ]

Author: Jeffrey Hollender | Source: “The Death and Life of Corporate Responsibility” | Original Publication: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior