In my workshops I do a simple activity to show participants the cost of having a poor manager. I generate all the data directly from the group in the room. The results invariably show that a poor manager costs a company an average of 35 to 45% in productivity! I don’t have […]
I recently completed creating an audio book for The Performance Culture. If you would like to listen to a few chapters. Email me and I will send you some I-pod friendly files you can listen to on your computer or I-pod.
I recently listened to an interview on the Business Week podcast about creativity and innovation at Google. The key ideas they discussed were:
1. Get the politics out of the creative process and
2. Put a clear structure around the process.
Both are issues I have written about recently.
In the podcast they discussed the importance of eliminating […]
Bear with me on this one, I think you might find it useful if you are interested in why things need so much attention and work in your team or group. The second law of thermodynamics (entropy) says that disorder tends to increase in a system especially in relation to other systems. Two […]
There is a lot of questioning and anxiety about jobs going over seas. I see it in my clients and others. From my perspective, this does not look any more threatening than past challenges to American business. What we have been good at in the past is flexibility and creativity in our […]
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Anon.