Posts Tagged ‘employee’

Performance, a relative term

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

This has been another few weeks of performance review and bonus talk in my office.  The only way that we know to really motivate employees, in the long term, is to allow them to feel connected to the group they work with and to feel that the work they are doing is meaningful and towards [...]

Ode to monkey wrenches

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

There’s always that one monkey wrench that gets thrown in your way at some point on a project, in your path on the way toward a goal, hanging in the sidelines, dooming completion, throwing you for a loop, — and it’s okay, really. We have this tendency to want order in our efforts – of [...]