September 19, 2008

Heartfelt thanks to Kirsten Hansen, who is, like me, a member of the Employee Engagement website.  On September 5, 2008 Kirsten wrote to say we need to talk about people’s expectations because Unrealistic expectations of others can lead to much dissatisfaction both in person and professional situations. 

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.

What people do is largely determined by how they feel.  Too many people are being affected by the widespread Psychological Recession, which is the depressed and anxious feeling that the present is no good and the future will be even more catastrophic.  Making it worse, you feel you’re hanging from a tree limb in a cold wind and no one cares.  To a large extent, these feelings stem from employees’ feelings that they are no longer stakeholders in the companies they work for, with the predictable result that anxiety and stress dominate the workplace.<