It’s not enough to see your employees in meetings and observe them through a pass-by in the hall and think you understand how they are feeling about their role in the company, you as their boss, or the company itself. It’s not enough to ask them periodically in an annual review (which is an antiquated [...]
It’s not enough
March 10th, 2011Tags: antiquated system, body, com, day job, earnings per share, employee engagement, EPS, eps growth, financial performance, Gallup, gallup research, hall, indicator, leading indicator, rate, share, team meetings, time, way, whol
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Untapped Resources
March 6th, 2011I spent this morning in the rain, running. My daughter is a runner – an awesome runner who has succinctly improved her timed mile over the past few years. Today was the first time I’ve chaperoned with her group in a New York Road Runners event. She’s a far better runner than I am now, [...]
Tags: amp, are, best time, bottom line, course, creativity, daughter, event, external resources, finish line, level, line, new york road runners, pouring down rain, resourcefulness, run, Runners, time, untapped resources, york road runners
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Need not linger
January 5th, 2011A few weeks ago we talked about the need to not linger in places where we are not creative, innovative, or simply motivated. This may have struck a chord with some of you – particularly since this has been a large topic of choice in my office over the past year! It’s obviously (as we [...]
Tags: best foot, change, choice, chord, course, different ways, excitement, Happy, happy new year, interplay, lifecycle, motivators, need, new experiences, personal life, professional career, professional life, reflection, way, year
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What’s the point of your giving?
December 23rd, 2010Why do you give? Do you give to develop relationships? Do you give so that you can offer things and/or services to others? Do you give for the sake of others? Or, for your own sake? In other words — where is the internal motivation of your giving? Giving is a complex act. We give [...]
Tags: action steps, creative energy, gratitude, happy new year, internal motivation, motivations, mutual benefit, myriad, sake, self awareness
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The competition… thoughts on
December 14th, 2010Competition is one of those loaded words that make our heart beat a little faster, and tends to kick in that nervous system action… just a tad. Really though, does competition have anything to do with external environment, people, circumstances, any or all of the above? I argue that it doesn’t, and that competition is [...]
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