Most People are Deeply Unhappy at Work
According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction is at a record low and one out of three workers are hoping to find a new job in the year ahead.
Many still find it hard to believe but money alone doesn’t lead to happiness. …
After months of speculation, it’s official.
Cisco will lay off 6,500 employees—about nine percent of its workforce—and transfer another 5,000 as part of the sale of its set-top box business to a Taiwanese company.
But what about those who don’t get cut? What about the 60,500 Cisco employees who remain in the …
I put a lot of work into the slides I use in my talks and move pretty fast when I present so I get a LOT of requests for copies of the slide deck.
Below is the link for a PDF of my core slides, but before you go clicking away …
Go Google Yourself
Go Google yourself. You know, go type your name in between quotes into Google or Bing or one of the other major internet search engines and see what comes up. I’ll wait…
Did you really do it? What came back on you is basically what your brand …
I received an email from James last week who shared how much he got from reading my book We, and he asked what other books I’d recommend. I’ve never really done a book list before partly, because it’s so hard to narrow them down (I read 50-100 books every …
In our book We, Rudy Karsan and I suggest that Recognition is one of the three major drivers of employee engagement (Growth and Trust being the other two). Now, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released a new survey on employee engagement and recognition, based on …
For most of human existence, pay has been tied directly to output. We consumed what we hunted, later we bartered our crops and livestock, and still later we would swap services we performed for lodging or meals. Even after the invention of money we received it for the goods we …
Every business today is desperately trying to figure out marketing 2.0, in other words grassroots marketing, buzz marketing, viral marketing, etc. Too often I see spray and pray campaigns that encourage you to “Like” a facebook page or sign-up for a newsletter or to enter a contest with the remote …
I’ve been doing a lot of webinars to promote my book, We, and I’ve learned that doing them successfully isn’t as easy it looks. Fortunately, I’m a quick learner and recently some real pro’s have shared tips including:
This week’s edition of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article about magazine publisher, Richard Beckman, and his efforts to revitalize The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and other media properties. I read with interest and some amusement how Beckman says he invented the term “B-to-I”. Most are familiar with the term B-to-B …
In a special initiative called Project Oxygen, Google unleashed its famed statisticians to analyze 10,000 observations about managers, across more than 100 variables, to find out how to build the perfect boss. Their resulting manifesto identifies 8 qualities, presented in order of importance:
1. Be a good coach
Provide specific, constructive feedback, …
Major General Ronald Bailey of the United States Marine Corps, one of the highest ranking African American officers in the military, spoke on leadership in an interview with The Root. He spoke of his ABC’s of leadership, which stand …
This is a guest post from John Chancellor and his Teach the Soul blog.
Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180
My work involves helping people achieve their goals. I want to share an exercise I sometimes use with the people I coach: I simply ask them …
I’ve been on a bit of a publicity death march lately with the launch of We, so with some irony I’m late in getting to read and review Jim Kukral‘s Attention: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase …
