Tag: managers
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Crap Advice On Recognition from Inc Magazine – #SMDH
Normally I let articles in the mainstream media that are patently incorrect slide by. There’s just too many of them for me to waste my time trying to correct the idiocy that passes for business journalism in today’s world. It seems to be more prevalent with articles that address the psychology of motivation and engagement […]
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Employee Engagement – It’s a Pope Thing
The Pope is in the house! Arriving on US soil September 22rd and bringing almost the same level of hysteria as the Beatles did in 1964 the Pope is making an impact. Love him or hate him he is doing things different and doing them his way. I was raised Catholic so the Pope has […]
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Performance Reviews 2015 – The Norwegian Blue of the HR World
The HR discussion of performance reviews has become a Monty Python scene. Half the HR gurus say performance reviews are dead. The other half just want to “reinvent” them. And the other half think performance reviews are just resting – pining for the fiords. The truth is they are all wrong. So I’m going to set the […]
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August Podcast – No Secrets – No Cheap Answers
Alan Shepard piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7. He is credited with answering the question about how it felt to be sitting on top of a rocket getting ready to blast off into space in this manner: “I looked at those toggle switches I had to turn on cue. I looked at the dials I […]
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Being Human is a Zero Sum Game
Show of hands how many of you actually know your neighbors? If you do know the people who live exactly next door to you, now think about those that live three houses down from you? Do you know them? If your representative of a recent study highlighted in an article from the Atlantic called “Why […]
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World Wide Epidemic of Rude and Negative – Support Our Better Angels
Employee engagement is down. Employee satisfaction is down. Overall happiness in the US is down (and has been declining since 2005). The number of mind-numbing and scream-laden reality TV shows is up (yet fading – there is good news!). Videos of people yelling, screaming, insulting each other and in general being the worst human beings in […]
Paul Hebert Unwrapped 