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Setting the table for a high(er) performing organization…

Over the course of thirty-plus years in leadership, from a start-up retail organization to a global manufacturer to a small marketing agency to a somewhat larger behavior-change company, I’ve learned...

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The imagination you inspire just might be your own…

Please. Put down the laser pen and back away slowly. Can we all just agree that in 2012 we will find a new, better way to deliver a message? If not for all the innocents who will have to endure the...

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What became of your expectations..?

A new year waits, just ahead, in full view. Just curious about one thing: This time a year ago you set some pretty aggressive goals, resolutions, objectives…whatever you termed them…essentially you...

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An activist songwriter nailed it…

Bruce Cockburn, the renown singer-songwriter from Canada, wrote “the trouble with normal is it always gets worse”. This is more true than ever, and on far more fronts than geo-political, ideological...

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Let’s not confuse appreciation with an act of recognition…

I am unaware of a single company that is not focused to some degree on engaging employees. The central concept of employee engagement has, since 2008, risen from the odd conversation to a strategic...

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May Day! May Day!…

Depending on your point of view, “May Day!” might bring to mind the following: Or, it might take on this meaning to you: It’s your call. You decide. If you go with the former, there is not much I can...

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Ready, willing, and able to engage…

What’s more detrimental to your organization than a large segment of disengaged employees? Here’s one answer: a large segment of previously engaged workers who have, for a variety of individual...

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An ode to innovation…

Yesterday evening, I had the opportunity to participate in a seminar on innovation, sponsored by a wonderful, Minneapolis-based agency appropriately named “Ideas To Go”. This firm is composed of some...

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Your employees are not engaged. Now what..?

There is a huge and growing interest in determining the level of employee engagement in companies of every size and scope. Organizations such as Gallup, Mercer, AON Hewitt, and others in the Employee...

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Always, never and the 99% rule…

Not sure what is expected of you? Receiving mixed signals as to what to do next? By my estimate roughly 99% of all of these are the result of one simple fact: We are really not that great at...

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When “Sloppy” meets “Slapdash”, or, How Not To Write A Business Book.

The current issue of The Economist looks at three new business books, and finds two of them laden with the detritus that characterizes too many of the published efforts these days: “sloppy” sentences,...

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