http://disqus.com/by/JohnDiFrances/enTue, 23 Sep 2008 12:08:39 -0000http://meetingsnet.com/corporatemeetingsincentives/news/pre_motivation_show_survey_0918/#comment-2542830<p>'More for less' has become an over used and tired battle cry. Additional rounds of personnel and other cost cuts is not a long term solution to an ailing bottom line. What will bring renewed health and growth to our corporate sector is a focus on creative innovation. In a global economy, it is the innovator, the creator of new, value-added products and services that will prosper, more so than the lowest cost producer of a non-brand differentiated commodity, who will always face yet another lower cost competitor.</p><p>Employees who are discouraged, demotivated and burned-out will not drive creative innovation. Truly visionary leaders understand that in difficult economic times, even more so than in good times, investment into people resources is crucial. Further paring of people budgets is the sure-fire formula for more of the same short term thinking that has precipitated our present dilemma.</p><p>As a nation we are losing our position of economic leadership because we have lost the commitment to create the future through creative innovation.</p>JohnDiFrancesTue, 23 Sep 2008 12:08:39 -0000