Caution – this post may cause discomfort, but if you keep reading maybe your discomfort will ease… maybe not
Engagement
Personal Development Plans… or, why you don’t want to be Icarus
It doesn’t matter which side of the table you are sitting on, working through development planning as an employee or with your employees can be painful. The conversation sometimes goes like this: “I don’t know, I’ve been here so long, what is there really left to learn?” or “There is so much uncertainty right now, […]
Quit playing the short game…
Quit playing the short game, without understanding the consequence. Because in the long run you are going to lose. Sure in the short run you might see a win, but do you understand the cost? This is a mistake that so many businesses and individuals play, its a gamble and they don’t even see it. […]
Are you paying attention to your values?
When I first started looking for images to tag into this blog post I searched values, because that’s what it’s about. What surprised, and maybe didn’t surprise me at the same time, was that the images were all of money and currency. And so it feels fitting to start there – with money. Often when […]
Unleash your inner child…
If you want success in business sometimes you have to stop being so grown up. It may seem counter-intuitive, however, sometimes going against your intuition is not such a bad thing. As children we are too ignorant to know any better, and so we challenge everything around us, trying to suss out what is relevant […]
Customers – we all have them and we all are one…
Many times in your life you are going to purchase things – cars, books, watches, apples, etc. – and each time your experience in purchasing will range somewhere on the continuum from indescribably horrible to incredible. Quite often you will find yourself somewhere in the realm of indifferent and not memorable. And if you are […]
Between the Carrot and the Stick
You’ve heard the analogy, the combination of reward and punishment to motivate and drive employees forward. In one hand you hold the carrot in front of your employee – just a little bit further, push just a little bit harder, and he can have this tasty reward. In the other hand you hold the stick, […]