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with passion… this Friday

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

I just returned from the annual conference for the Society of Organizational Psychology.  Conferences & Seminars always pose that challenge of fitting in time out of town on top of… everything else.  But the result is always the same, we’re all happy we made the effort and the trip. So often we get caught up [...]

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Last night’s dinner conversation was intense.  I was already tired after a long day of thinking intently about some challenges. I knew I had to get this one right in the moment though.  It was a touchy subject and pensive discussion, one not to be taken lightly and all points of view needed to be [...]

It’s not enough

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

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 [...]

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 [...]

The view from my window

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Sometimes we can not help but laugh at the ironies in life.  Some of you know that prior to switching to an International Business major in college; I was a Fine Arts major.  Creativity is an old friend and sculpture is what I enjoy most.  It’s the creation beneath the hands, the molding, the mess, [...]