Through good times and bad, your ability to do great work is capped by your capacity to make decisions and take action in the face of uncertainty. That challenge is now magnified in a world where nearly every element of work and life has become increasingly unpredictable. Current worth is often measured not by your… Read more »

HR professionals are hard to figure out sometimes. You want to fire someone and they say, “Hold on, where’s your documentation?”—as if you have time to document every little thing the guy does. You say to yourself, “I am a manager, not an attorney.” Or: HR wants documentation so that’s what you give them. This… Read more »

Trying to motivate your employees?  Don’t.  All you are doing is robbing them of pride in their work and creating a dependency between employee and employer.  If you want a “quality focused” workforce we must provide for meaningful work and appeal to the employee intrinsic side of motivation. Extrinisc motivational techniques are wasteful and expensive. … Read more »

I am so lost for words, yet I am high on emotions over the lack of fair play and principled negotiations on the part of the President and the Congress.  Ready? Here it comes … I think that the power play at hand, one that is severe enough to lower the credit rating of the US,… Read more »

I just bought a new car.  Great little car – Lexus 200ct hybrid.  Getting 47 mpgs!  But that’s not what this blog is about. Rather this blog is about what the salesman told me as we were wrapping up the paperwork.  He said that I will be sent an evaluation form to reflect on my… Read more »

 Having just completed 6 rounds of Management Training (12 rounds of employee training) on Harassment and Ethics for a single client, I have this reflection: many leaders do not understand the liability they carry both personally and on behalf of their company.  It was been an amazing few weeks.  I was very fortunate and honored… Read more »