I went to a facilitors workshop this morning and the one thing that the presenter just kept hammering away at was the need to "think outside the box." Can we bury this overused phrase now? Pretty Please? Seriously, if you find that it’s necessary to think outside the box, you better take a good look [...]

One of Marcus Buckingham’s central tenets of organizational management is that employees don’t leave companies, they leave bad managers. I can agree with this as I’ve been able to verify it in action. What about the other way around? What if you find yourself within a company that’s inundated by ineffective decisions, a lack of [...]

Jeremy at Lifestylism highlights an article arguing that Canadians are trying to hard to emulate their counterparts south of the border when it comes to how they relate to their jobs. The article’s foundation is a survey conducted by Ipsos-Reid Canada. Nothing terribly surprising here, but still it all points to some damaging trends.
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David Batstone writes for Worthwhile Magazine and produces an e-newsletter called The WAG, Worthwhile and Gain. In an August issue of WAG, David plucked a particularly relevant story out of Fortune Magazine. It was the experience of A.G. Lafley, the Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble, who nearly left P&G twenty years ago. There [...]

I’ve been blessed to discover a new blog: 37 Days. A few weeks ago, Patti sent me an email saying that she found my blog through a mutual friend. Turns out we’re both Guilford College alums, have non-profit association experience, and she lives in one of the places that I would dearly love to migrate [...]