Mar 23, 2016 | Leadership, Motivation, Productivity
We spend a high percentage of our waking hours interacting with our work colleagues. Conventional wisdom has it that coworkers don’t have to like each other; they just need to do their jobs. According to some very interesting research coming out of Carnegie-Mellon and...
Sep 9, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Stress, Work-Life
A recent article in the New York Times detailing the arduous demands Amazon places on its employees has put a spotlight on the subject of working long hours. The authors contend that Amazon, an amazingly successful company well on its way to become the world’s first...
Jun 10, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Training
Many organizations try to boost employee productivity by using traditional analytic approaches which focus on strategic planning, goal setting and process efficiency measures. These methods reflect the belief that better systems, planning and processes lead to better...
Mar 5, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation, Training
In our culture, which extols the merits of authenticity and transparency in everything from TED talks about leadership to advertisements for our food, it may seem a bit contrarian to make a case for the virtues of faking it. But I’d like to try. Suppose you are the...
Feb 26, 2015 | EAP, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Stress, Training, Work-Life
We are forgetful creatures. I’m not referring to the “senior moment” variety of forgetfulness. I’m talking about the habitual forgetting that takes place in the midst of everyday life challenges and stresses, when we “forget” to make those choices that we know will...
Feb 11, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation
Meetings are important. For better or worse, most organizational decisions are still made in groups. Meetings are a ubiquitous element of organizational life even as teams are now often geographically dispersed and collaborating online as well as in person. A...
