Employee Satisfaction and Quiet Quitting: How Is Your Organization Doing?
Employee Satisfaction and Quiet Quitting: How Is Your Organization Doing? articles Many leaders are panicking about the “quiet quitting” movement. For employers, leaders and HR professionals, quiet quitting means less productivity, lower performance, lower profitability, higher turnover, and even lower customer satisfaction. If you’re a founder, CEO, or leader, you’ve worked hard to get where […]
Quiet Quitting Won’t Make Your Life Better. Here’s What to Do Instead
If you’re disengaged at work, you may be cheering for “quiet quitters” who aim to focus more on other parts of life. But you still have this niggling sense that something is off. Is quiet quitting really the answer to your lingering unhappiness? What happened to achievement?
The Missing “C”
Most pianist understand the importance of “Middle C” in orienting themselves as they begin to play. In leadership “middle C” represents compassion – both the ability and the desire to feel for and with those you are called to lead.
The key is to just start
The night I quit my job I had a decision to make: wait, or just start. I chose to just start and held a seminar the next day. People in motion tend to stay in motion and people at rest tend to stay at rest. So whatever it is you’ve been waiting to do… just start!
When moving forward means saying goodbye
The world needs the light and magic you have inside of you. Your journey itself—and the promise of what is to come—is more important than any position you currently occupy.
Waiting for Superman premieres this week
Our schools are the incubators of the future, and right now they’re scarcely lukewarm. Our nation’s education ratings are among the lowest of all developed countries.
How great leaders inspire action – the golden circle
Simon Sinek describes how it is that great leaders inspire action—why some people are able to achieve things when others are not. He explains a new way of looking at how people approach what they do.
Anxiously engaged
Engagement leads to flow. Flow describes those moments when you are so engaged in what you’re doing that you lose all sense of self, all sense of time, all sense of everything. You are wholly, utterly consumed in your focus.
Control vs Influence
If you’re talking about the life or lives of others, control is an illusion; influence is what matters.
Change blindness, and the all-of-a-sudden syndrome
Things rarely happen “all of a sudden.” They happen incrementally, by degrees; slowly, over time. The problem is, we usually don’t see them happening until “all of a sudden” it’s too late.
The Pareto Principle – The easiest way to increase productivity
This single principle can have an exponential impact on how much you get done in life. It’s a productivity powerhouse that, once understood, can be a game changer.
Principle based leadership
A good leader sees the principles that lie at the heart of every issue and instructs on those principles as they’re naturally encountered. Learning principles as they’re practically applicable makes them easier to remember. What kind of leader are you?
To teach or not to teach
You never know when the lives of those who hear you will be divinely aligned in just the right way to prepare them for what you have to say.
That’s not my job (poem)
An amusing poem about not assuming responsibility.
That’s not my job
That kind of “no problem, it’s my job” approach is an inspiration in a day when so many are finding excuses to say “that’s not my job.”
Being Persuasive
Being Persuasive Persuasiveness pervades almost every aspect of our life. Either you’re being persuaded or you’re trying to be persuasive yourself. Whether it’s in a relationship, communicating with a spouse or a child, marketing a product, selling something, teaching a class, or talking to your boss, a co-worker, or someone that works for you—life is […]
