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,…
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…
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…
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…
Inputs: The real key to changing your life
For our change initiatives to be successful, we have to get down the the core, what really drives change, this is what really matters.
Failure and critics – ignore them both
When you have a vision—when you really believe you can make a difference, do something great, or create something meaningful—you’ve got to learn…
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 de…
Finding Fulfillment: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
The key to living a life of fulfillment and happiness is ensuring that these ascending needs are met.
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 …
Ken Robinson: The importance of creativity
Ken Robinson gives a TED talk on "Do Public Schools Kill Creativity", and then makes a poignant argument about the failure of public schools.
You remember the Mayflower, but what about Speedwell?
There are times in our lives when we will be called into action, when we will be required to move, when the opportunity to do something great will lie…
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 ti…
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 happ…
Seashells and opportunities
Opportunities don’t sit and wait very long. Often, you’ll no sooner spot one worth pursuing than it’s washed away. You have to act fast. You hav…
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 …
My new book: Escape Velocity
These are the things from which we try to escape. And the principles and practices which allow us to do just that is what I call “Escape Velocity.…
Sacrifice is hard
sacrifices are in no way independently substantial, but in accumulation begin to carry some weight, and there’ve already been tears shed.
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…