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December 12, 2008

It’s very strange:  In the roughly four years that I’ve been speaking to  management about the hundreds of studies that clearly demonstrate that high levels of employee commitment and engagement predict financial success, I’ve consistently found that virtually no one in the audience had ever heard of these facts. 

November 26, 2008

After many years of consulting I’ve become a stalwart supporter of keeping things simple which means really focused and very brief.  That view puts me among a really small minority of experts and consultants because organizational processes keep getting more and more complicated, inclusive and difficult.

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August 6, 2008

First, hearty thanks to SJ, who recently asked me an important question:  How important is it, he asked, for people to really understand what’s important to them now and in the longer term in order to make sure that they don’t accept a job or join an organization in which they will never be able to be fully engaged?

Dear SJ,

July 17, 2008

Senator Phil Gramm, you’ve taken a lot of flack this week about the comments you made on July 9^th to the Washington Times.  You called us a nation of “whiners” who suffer from a non-existent “mental recession.”  Well, while you’ve got the mood right,  you’ve also got a case of hoof-in-mouth disease.

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.