How many times have you said, “I can’t wait until…” or “I’ll be happy when I …?”
Something has zapped the happiness of our workforce. According to the 2011 version of The Conference Board Job Satisfaction Survey only 47.2 percent of the respondents reported “satisfaction.” The first year for the survey (1987) a 61.1 percent satisfaction rate was…
Simon has been identified as a “high potential” in the company. However, if he is to succeed he needs help. During a recent project update Simon said to Tim, his boss, “I don’t know what the **** I’m doing.”
“What did you do with that statement?” I asked Tim.
“I let it slide.”
When I asked Tim to explore why he didn’t engage Simon, at the time, he…
Like tulips emerging in spring, flags appear on the final Monday of May. Here in the United States, volunteers placed miniature American flags to honor the men and women who died serving in the Armed Forces yesterday. Originally known as “Decoration Day,” this day called a nation to remember the soldiers who died in the Civil War. Later, the day was extended to honor all who died in military service.
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Step on to the playground and listen. As tensions rise, you just might hear a preschooler or perhaps a kindergartener squeal, “My dad can do anything!”
Flash back to 1946 and hear the battle of the sexes put to music as Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton perform “Anything You Can Do” in Annie Get Your Gun.
Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better…
Remember the story of The Little Engine that Could?
A little railroad engine was employed about a station yard for such work as it was built for, pulling a few cars on and off the switches. One morning it was waiting for the next call when a long train of freight cars asked a large engine in the roundhouse to take it over the hill.
“I can’t; that…
Fifer Pig builds his house of straw. Fiddler Pig builds his house of sticks. Practical Pig builds his house of brick in Disney’s Three Little Pigs cartoon.
Built and influenced by personality, three brothers build three different houses.
Fifer Pig takes the easy way, for he “toots his flute, doesn’t…
History tends to repeat itself unless we are paying attention.
For decades, I have invested the early days of January to stroll back through the past 52 weeks. The objective is to capture substantial moments in the Story, destined to be lost, unless we intentionally capture the highlights.
This disciplined…
