4 Hidden Ways Employee Satisfaction Adds To Your Company Performance
Employee satisfaction is closely tied to performance. When satisfaction levels rise, productivity, customer service, and profits tend to rise too. Emp…
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Want To Know The Secret To Happy Customers? It’s Employee Satisfaction
If you want your customers to be happy, you need to think about employee satisfaction. When employees like their workplaces, they are more effective a…
Want Your Team To Achieve More? Fix Your Company Culture
Company culture affects everything your company does. Research has shown that culture has a strong impact on employees, job seekers, customer service,…
The Missing “C”
Most pianists understand the importance of "Middle C" in orienting themselves as they begin to play. In leadership “middle C” represents compassio…
New Years’ Resolution – Goals or Gales?
As you set goals, especially those tied to very “narrow” constraints, be careful that you don’t substitute one level of uncertainty and frustra…
Let Your Light Shine
You're on a journey... not just to discover the light shining within you, but to let it out and let it shine. That moment when you discover who you re…
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 posi…
When the journey ahead terrifies you
Being terrified doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re human. And the most important steps we take in life are often going to be the most ter…
TEDx Talk: Reaching your personal escape velocity
We must make a fundamental change to how we view ourselves—not as the product of our past, but for the potential of our future. Watch Rusty Lindquis…
Put down your device and live
Put down your device and live a real life, not a virtual one. A poem written and performed by Gary Turk, called "Look Up."
Finding fulfillment: 4 truths of personal progress
These four truths about mastery and personal progress will help you find fulfillment, purpose, and direction in life, and will help you get past your …
Life Engineering turns 6, gets a new website
Life Engineering has become a major movement, and it's time to up the ante. Now there's a scaffolding of products and services to power the movement a…
Climb life’s mountains
Strength and perspective come when you climb life's mountains instead of avoiding them.
What you probably didn’t know about doing little things
Little things can give us a sense of accomplishment, which can be good in building momentum; but they can also help us justify putting off the big thi…
Sleep Deprivation: how you sabotage your own success
Sometimes we give too much credit to our failures, when what we really need is just a little more of this one key thing.
Find perspective in this surprisingly effective lens for life
FIND PERSPECTIVE IN THIS SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE LENS FOR LIFE articles Imagine you’ve been given a garden. It’s your garden, and you’re responsible for its care.…
The touching story behind Rudolf, the reindeer
In 1939, Montgomery Ward asked employee Bob May to write a Christmas story for them to give away at Christmastime. It ended up being one of the most w…
How to fuel (or kill) anything
The truth is, we often let the things that matter the most to us die, not because of anything we do, but because we don't do this one thing that is cr…
Invictus, the powerful story of overcoming adversity
The poem Invictus teaches us that we can't control the cards life deals us, but we can control what we do with those cards. We are the masters of our …
Stress: A means of propulsion in life
The key to dealing with stress is in your perspective. If you have a strong foundational perspective of yourself—of where you’re going and what yo…
