Does this sound like your life? You work from 7:30 in the morning until 7:00 each night and go home exhausted, thinking about all the unfinished work that continues to pile up nonetheless. You take work with you on “vacations,” and your ringing cell phone competes...
If you want to excel, you must excel at the implementation of every policy and procedure you roll out. Here is a 10-step template to make ensure each implementation rocks. Help every person “feel the pain.” Make sure people experience the pain of not fixing the...
How do you get people to do what they’re supposed to do—not sometimes, not sorta, but consistently and for real? This month I met an executive who said something that shocked me. He said that only 40 percent of their people are meeting their goals. FORTY percent!!!...
You’ve heard the expression, “You wouldn’t know a good thing if it bit you”? It’s a funny expression, but as it pertains to employee motivation, it’s right on the money. According to a recent study by Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer, when 600 managers were asked...
