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November 13, 2002, 8:35 am (updated ages ago) |
| From: | Quinthar |
| Title: | Read Book, Get Paid |
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Smart employees are good for the individual as well as the company. One technique for getting smart is reading. Furthermore, reading is best done as a group exercise, where you can discuss what you've read with others to gain a better understanding. Finally, this group exercise serves as a foundation for social interaction, basically giving a "common ground" on which to base conversation and relationships. With all this in mind, I'd like to pay employees to read books on a wide variety of topics, with the requirement that they submit the book to a common library and write a "book report" that goes into a shared database.
In practice, perhaps pay a fixed amount for each book read, with the cost of the book being deducted from that amount. This would encourage infrequent-readers to choose books already in the library (as the entire amount then goes to the reader), and thus implicitly strengthen the social foundation of the organization by creating a larger set of common interests. It also encourages frequent-readers (who would go outside the internal library) to share their knowledge and experience with the organization in a permanent, tangible way with the book reports.
As for topics, I'd like to err on the side of generality, but would hope to focus on technology, business, marketing, science, history, etc. I'd like to avoid fiction, politics, and religion, but ultimtaly I'd like to leave the decision up to managers rather than having a hard-and-fast rule. |
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