As a leader you know results and productivity are higher when people are committed to their work. You also know higher levels of commitment or engagement also increase job satisfaction, safety performance and focus while reducing on-the-job stress and turnover. Commitment, engagement or buy-in – whatever you want to call – it’s a good thing.
Lots of things happen in meetings – some of them even helpful! While most everyone has horror stories about meetings, there also are far too many examples of meetings that, while not awful, are far from effective. One of the reasons for these less-than-stellar experiences is that meetings aren’t often a place where decisions are
Today I read a post called The Planes of Tomorrow on the Think Like a Beginner blog. The post talks about NASA inviting major aircraft manufacturers to submit designs for the future. According to the post NASA asked that  “[E]ach design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range
Everyone collects something – and most of collect a lot of things.  Daytime talk shows often have people on with bizarre collections: they collect animals, or toys, or they save everything – to the point where their houses can’t hold it all. I’m not talking about those extreme cases, I’m talking about people like you
February 15th my next book, co-authored with Guy Harris, will be published. It’s called From Bud to Boss – Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership and focuses on the transition to a new leadership role after being a peer, and perhaps friends, with those you now lead. The book focuses specifically on the
If this title has you scratching your head, wondering if I am suggesting you become an egomaniac, relax! That is the furthest thing from my mind (though I’ll talk about it before I’m through). The truth is, while there are people with super-high self images related to their expertise and knowledge, many more people don’t
Feedback and advice. In modern organizational life they are related terms. When you look at them grammatically, they are connected, but not as related as I thought before I researched them a bit. From Dictionary.com here are the relevant definitions for each word, and some synonyms too: Feedback: noun – (3) a reaction or response
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