Removing Obstacles to Success
May 31, 1:02 pm
June is here, and time for my monthly “cool things to do with your employees” post.
For some strange reason, food is in the spotlight in June. Not only is it National Candy Month, someone must have really had the munchies—during the first week alone, each of the following foods have their own day:
Donuts
Rocky Road [ice […]
May 25, 12:59 pm
With permission, I’m posting here about a coaching session I just finished. The manager I’ve been working with (we’ll call him “Stan”) has been in various positions over the past ten years, but says he’s never been trained in what it means to be a manager.
“I can’t believe how these leaders just tell you what […]
May 24, 3:01 pm
I had dinner last night with a group of people, one of whom is a woman nearing retirement who started her own business four years ago. Obviously, this woman (let’s call her Marge) is not your typical small business entrepreneur, but there’s a whole more to that statement than just her age.
Marge is a steady-analytical […]
May 24, 12:24 pm
After receiving a few requests for reprinting, I thought it might be easier just to create a .pdf of the Ten Universal Principles of the Workplace so people can just download them and print out as many as they like.
White background and blue background versions are available.
If you have a color laser printer, the blue background […]
May 22, 6:01 am
When conversations come around to “what’s needed for an excellent workplace?”, the answer could fill a library. Most of us don’t have time to read hundreds of books, so to make things easier, I’ve put together my “Ten Universal Principles of the Workplace.” It’s easy to print off and hang in a cube, post by the […]
May 16, 3:00 pm
You’ve seen my picture . . . you’ve read my blog . . . now’s your chance to listen to me answer Lisa Haneberg’s questions.
The interview can be found on Lisa’s Mangement Craft blog, but I’ve also included a link here so you can either listen to the interview now or download it and listen […]
May 15, 2:49 pm
An article in Monday’s New York Times about Katie Couric and the woes at CBS News got me to thinking. What Katie Couric did is exactly what many other successful people do—make a job shift away from what they excel at. And, like Couric, the change isn’t always what they thought it would be.
Regardless of […]
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