Leadership

There’s a lot of mediocrity in the working world. I would like to say that it’s a new thing, that maybe unions helped to create it or promote it, but I can’t. I would like to say that it’s the byproduct of our generation, that Gen-X’ers don’t care about anything anymore, but I can’t. I […]

After an interesting encounter yesterday at a meeting I thought that I would not only write on this topic, but actually do it in a video instead to get the point across better. It’s hard changing people’s minds because most of the time we don’t want to know the truth. It’s kind of like how […]

Years ago at a consulting gig I was participating in a telephone meeting. I had one other person in the room with me, and had only known her a couple of weeks. During the meeting, someone asked me a question about something that I didn’t remember doing, so I answered that I didn’t know. After […]

I remember talking to someone who is a supervisor at a local company. This person told me it was time to do employee evaluations, and that she was hesitant because she didn’t know how some people would react to their evaluations; obviously the bad ones. I asked her if she knew these people and she […]

There are constant pressures all of us have to deal with. It seems like almost every day there’s something that we have to overcome in order to get through the day. Whereas we all have to work through different types of issues, there is one constant that is paramount; we must work hard to keep […]