Removing Obstacles to Success
September 3, 4:33 am
This is the 2nd in a short series reviewing a bit of success literature I think everyone should read. Yesterday was Part I, in which I did a short review of Jack Canfield’s and Janet Switzer’s book, The Success Principles. Today’s book is just as powerful, only in a different way (by the way, just […]
September 2, 10:54 am
However you define success, everyone seems to want it. Whether it’s achieving goals, living according to one’s calling, or making a difference in the world, everyone wants to accomplish something. But the truth is that most people struggle in the effort, and that begs the question, what is needed to get past the obstacles on […]
August 29, 4:17 am
I recently received a request from Oxford University Press to take an excerpt from one of my Workplace Excellence columns and use it as springboard for discussion questions in a forthcoming college business textbook.
Normally something like this is flattering, but after reading their synopsis of my article, I was shocked to discover it misrepresented my […]
August 28, 4:10 am
Yesterday I related some of the ways morale was being destroyed at a friend’s workplace. After a bit of investigation, I learned the changes will cause at least 15 employees to leave – twenty percent of the workforce. And that’s just to start.
One of the reasons the company wants to make changes is to save […]
August 27, 4:08 am
The following list is by no means exhaustive — there are thousands of ways to kill employee morale. But here are a few that emerged from a conversation with a friend of mine the other day. He was sharing with me some of the changes going on at his work, and talking about the number of […]
August 12, 8:29 am
Thanks goes to Paula Santonocito, business journalist, editor, career advisor, and all around good person, for quoting me last week at the single-minded women’s blog.
Paula had interviewed me for an article she wrote for Thompson Reuter’s HRWire, and it must have stuck in her mind that I place high importance on the skill of listening — In her […]
August 11, 11:19 pm
The following story is true. The names and places have been changed to protect the innocent—and the guilty…
About a year ago Jordan’s dream job finally fell into place. His company transferred him to one of their manufacturing plants in the south where he would serve as a process improvement specialist—a newly created position for his […]
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