Let’s start with what everyone agrees on. It’s good for employees to be motivated and not so good when they’re not. So the question then becomes, why isn’t it happening on a more consistent basis? In our work with Millennials (Gen Y), Indifference is one of their perceived orientations by the thousands of managers we...Read More

“Not everything that is face can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin (American author) The concept of biological stress is a fairly recent study. Anxiety has been around for millenniums, but stress is a recent conception. In the late 1950’s Hans Selye began to identify and document stress....Read More

(Not To Be Confused With Introspection) The famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The final mystery is oneself.” But how do you unravel the mystery that is you? For one thing you need to be self-aware. Yet this won’t happen without reflection. Now we talk about reflection, disproportionately, at this time of the year....Read More

CAUTION!! You are about to enter the time-to-take-action zone. It’s an annual sojourn that usually starts right after the Thanksgiving holidays. We refer to them as resolutions. But resolutions do not equal intentions. The journey between now and the New Year is a bit treacherous. There are psychological obstacles and optical illusions that need to...Read More

(Are You Prepared To Attract Qualified Workers?) You’ve read the headlines. One day they say, Companies Report Record Profits. The next day it’s, Unemployment Is At 10 Percent. What gives? Payrolls have been cut to the bone. Technology has created a surplus of unskilled labor, thus layoffs. It will create new and better jobs, but...Read More

Our history is filled with stories of people who turn major setbacks, addictions, and bad decisions into a purposeful future. When Chuck Colson went to prison for his major part in Watergate, his fall from grace gave rise to a nonprofit that has become a redemptive turn around for multitudes of imprisoned inmates. He is...Read More

Is There An Upside of Giving Up Control? I met Charlene Li in Chicago at the American Society for Trainers and Developers conference (ASTD) last year. She is the co-author of Groundswell. Her new book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, continues on the same theme.  It’s about changing the power...Read More