I hope you'll read this interview I did with Cincom Expert Access. Thank you too them for letting us republish it on our site as well.

I was honored to contribute a manifesto to the outstanding site Changethis.com and hope you will take time to read it. Please feel free to download the manifesto as well and share it with your social networks.

Thank you for taking time to read it. The link to the full Changethis.com manifesto is here.

I was recently featured on the Expert Access Radio show and hope you will take time to listen to the interview.

I hope you'll take time to read my Changethis.com manifesto which was published in October on Changethis.com . I'm proud to be included on a site of such contemporary and forward thinkers.

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April 22, 2010

Some of my very favorite examples of what to do come from examples of the worst not to do.

I well remember flying into Phoenix to meet with the CEO of a Fortune 500 company for the first time.  After the usual pleasantries we sat down at a table, he grabbed my right forearm tightly, shoved his face close to mine and hissed, I want to kill them.  I want to kill them all and I want you to deliver that message.

He was talking about his employees.

I looked him straight in the eye and said,

December 22, 2009

There are two laws I really like:  the first, Murphy’s Law says, If anything can go wrong, it will.  You can bank on that.  The other, Bardwick’s Law of Entitlement  says, What ever people get for free stops being a delight and very quickly becomes an entitlement. 

I recently had two experiences, one right after the other, in which people weren’t grateful for what they received for the simple reason they didn’t have the information that would make them appreciate what they were getting.

November 11, 2009

Continuing my interview with the famous literary critic, Robert Morris, here are my responses to his questions regarding (1) How to make employees feel appreciated, and (2) What to do if working for a toxic leader.

Morris: In all of the major research studies of which I am aware, employees rank feeling appreciated among what is most important to them at work. How can organizations do more, specifically, to make their people feel more appreciated than many of them now do?

October 20, 2008

The famous literary critic, Robert Morris, asked me some very interesting questions. I will post a blog with many of them. Here is an interesting one on having a balanced life.

Morris: In your opinion, is it possible to balance what is most important in one’s career with what is most important in one’s personal life? If so, what to do? What not to do?

July 28, 2009