For example, a company that falls in the 50th percentile on employee motivation improves only to the 56th by boosting performance on one drive, but way up to the 88th percentile by doing better on all four drives. Thatâs a powerful gain in competitive advantage that any business would relish.Getting people to do their best work, even in trying circumstances, is one of managersâ most enduring and slippery challenges. Indeed, deciphering what motivates us as human beings is a centuries-old puzzle.hatâs a powerful gain in competitive advantage that any business would relish. Getting people to do their best work, even in trying circumstances, is one of managersâ most enduring and slippery challenges. Indeed, deciphering what motivates us as human beings is a centuries-old puzzle.
GNP released the First Contact soundtrack on December 2, 1996. The album contained 51 minutes of music, with 35 minutes of Jerry Goldsmith's score, 10 minutes of additional music by Joel Goldsmith, Ooby Dooby and Magic Carpet Ride.
Handsets that could be used in a vehicle had been developed prior to Martin Cooperâs phone, but his was the first usable truly portable mobile telephone. Cooper made mobile phone history in April 1973 when he made the first ever call on a handheld mobile phone. 1  Japan became the first country to have a city-wide commercial cellular mobile phone network in 1979.  The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system launched in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland in 1981.