Employees

Happy Innovation
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Many leaders don’t see the connection between happiness and corporate innovation. Well, at least until everyone is unhappy and...
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What Stymies Success?
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Do people fear success? No. They fear what success requires or brings. Success is defined as the accomplishment of...
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Dealing with Renegade High Achievers
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I was a renegade employee. I got fired for it. That led me to becoming the longest serving CEO...
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Employees, Good/Bad Times
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Like all other humans, employees have different needs at different moments. Leadership during good times and bad are uniquely...
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People Do Good
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“Corporate good” is not a new thing, though it has been the subject of a lot of recent chatter....
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Challenging Assumptions
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“In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.” – William Lyon Phelps Assumptions...
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Performance Metrics and Innovation
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There is a natural conflict between standard employee performance metrics and innovation. Being Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO I...
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How Teamwork in the Workplace Helps Boost Morale
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If you want a lesson on team morale and its criticality, just look to American soldiers in World War...
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Become a Better Manager: 20 Leadership Examples to Inspire Your Team
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“Leading by example” is no trite phrase. People are inspired by positive examples. The average American cannot name their...
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Workplace Diversity and The Path to Greatness
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Genetics science tells us that life itself thrives via diversity. Your company does too. Like a species, mankind has...
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Mankind Is Your Business
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“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity,...
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Mergers, Acquisitions and Unemployment
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One of the easiest ways to lose your job is when your company is acquired, or is the small...
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Asking the right question
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There is an old adage that says one should seek to understand before seeking to be understood. I say...
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Rusty Golden Handcuffs
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The history of American slavery notes that some slaves reluctantly accepted their shackles, knowing that their harsh life at...
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Making Every Day Your Best Day at Work
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The spouse of one of our employees contacted me regarding his wife, taking time from his work day to...
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Happy Innovation

What Stymies Success?

Dealing with Renegade High Achievers

Employees, Good/Bad Times

People Do Good

Challenging Assumptions

Performance Metrics and Innovation

How Teamwork in the Workplace Helps Boost Morale

Become a Better Manager: 20 Leadership Examples to Inspire Your Team

Workplace Diversity and The Path to Greatness

Mankind Is Your Business

Mergers, Acquisitions and Unemployment

Asking the right question

Rusty Golden Handcuffs

Making Every Day Your Best Day at Work