Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
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 [...]
Tags: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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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 [...]
Tags:area, corporate culture, department, employee, end, entire team, focus, japanese nationals, japanese teams, line, living in japan, performance, rath, relative term, shine, simple steps, stronghold, value, verbal communication, way
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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, [...]
Tags:creative inspiration, entertainment publicity, fordham university, hectic life, interview series, ironies in life, mound of clay, sculpture course, sculpture garden, time warner center
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
What I realize is that creativity is essentially one of those things that’s a point of daily natural life or something we ‘wait’ to make a part of life, and often times with the later approach, creative output doesn’t always happen. From the idea folks that companies rely heavily on, or the creative ability to [...]
Tags:ability, brainstorm, component, creative ability, creative output, creativity, doesn, fruition, general knowledge, humor, idea, information processes, knowledge, life, output doesn, playing the piano, research ideas, research interviews, Something, time
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Last night I had the fun experience of visiting the set of American Idol for the live taping and behind the scenes look. It’s so easy to forget (when you’ve been out of the behind-the-scenes loop for a bit) the enormous amount of work and detail that goes into what the general public views in [...]
Tags:collaboration, concise, creative industries, creativity and innovation, crew, detail, Idols, innovative team, lighting designers, musical directors, production, production assistants, set, talent, taping, team building ideas, team creation, TELEVISION, uphill struggle, warm group
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