How A Company Culture is Formed
To any sort of company, culture can make a big difference. It can basically affect how the company is run, due to it governing everything from systems to beliefs and values. If a company cannot...
View ArticleThree approaches to employee development that sound like great ideas, but...
With employees feeling overwhelmed by ever-increasing task demands, it’s harder than ever to make employee development a priority with its longer term, often “squishy” topics. Fortunately, there are...
View ArticleTrying to change company culture is a fool’s errand
Culture is an end result, much like cake. A cake is an end result of the recipe. To make great cake we don’t fix the finished cake, we fix the recipe. As a result we get better cake. Similarly, there’s...
View ArticleThe Miseducation of…
“Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better” — Carter G. WoodsonSometimes I feel as though everyone gets it but me,...
View ArticleThe X-factor That Every Professional Needs
Lessons On Business And Work From X-menIn the new X men movie, Professor Xavier’s ability to read minds, and control people, is acknowledged as the most special ability.This is not because his...
View ArticlePassion is Overrated
Commitment is not.Commitment is becoming the new currency.Along with reputation and credibility, commitment is the number one trait we look for in someone before considering working with them.We are...
View ArticleWhy Weirdness Is An essential Professional Quality
What We Need To Stand Out In Our Careers & BusinessesIn a world of traditions, norms, mediocrity, and fitting in with the crowd, standing out is the gold standard for career development.A diamond...
View ArticleDear CEO: Who Tells You When Your Baby Is Ugly?
We leaders have a big, big problem.It’s called information filtering, and every social group does it — family, circle of friends, and certainly staff. The larger a company gets, the more layers of...
View ArticleStop Defaulting To Seeking Promotion
Add More Value, Upgrade Your Skills, And Promote YourselfAt times we can get so preoccupied with seeking the next big promotion, we want a better title, status, reward or things. We do this without...
View ArticleWhatever you’re doing, you need to stop
We're all swamped, snowed under, slammed. It seems the only way to manage our avalanche of emails, overlapping meetings and preponderance of priorities is to work faster.While it feels like we need to...
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