Category: Connection & Communication

Emotions in the Workplace

Your employees should leave their emotions at home, right?

Wrong.

Sure, emotions can be messy, intrusive, and challenging to deal with.  more

Sink or Swim Often Means Sink

Remember The Peter Principle?

If you’re at least as old as I am, you’ll probably recall the splash it made when it hit #1, 40 years ago.  The book became a cultural phenomenon.  Its message, more

If You Believe In It, Sell It

Most leaders don’t get the importance of effective salesmanship — inside their organization.

Recently, we’ve been working with a group of managers more

Time to retire the carrot and stick

School teachers and administrators are cheating to gin up the scores of their students on standardized tests.  So reported the New York Times last week.

The reaction to this story more

Sustaining the Motivation to Excel

I got pushback yesterday on a presentation I did on motivation.  I was challenging sacred cows, and a number of the business people present didn’t like it.

My central message:  more