Stop chasing productivity
Most of us chase productivity like a crack addict after [...]
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04, 2017
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03, 2017
Why giving 100% is a faulty ideal
Saying workers are not fully engaged at work may be [...]
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03, 2016
Why it’s so hard to improve work engagement
Work engagement numbers haven't changed much since 2011. Gallup's State [...]
6
11, 2015
Why work-life balance is silly
Work life balance is the holy grail of modern existence. [...]
29
05, 2015
The purpose of Employee Engagement
Whenever I think Employee Engagement (EE) has already become another [...]
15
05, 2015
What’s on your distraction buffet?
You probably have your favourite distractors—the time wasters that you [...]
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05, 2015
Your Distraction Buffet
Ever spend a day being really busy, doing lots of [...]
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04, 2015
Look for passion first
Trying to ignite passion in people who don’t have it [...]
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02, 2015
Happiness at work should not be your goal
Happy good, unhappy bad. Not too many people will challenge [...]
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02, 2015
Do you do important work?
There was a scene in “The Imitation Game” when the [...]
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01, 2015
Why we must all be entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are the marines of business. Figuratively speaking, they take [...]
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01, 2015
Ten signs of a bad boss
Many bad bosses are nice people, but they all create [...]
6
10, 2014
The S.T.U.P.I.D. test
We’ve all heard of the SMART goal acronym. Tom [...]
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09, 2014
Freedom at Work
How'd you like to take as much vacation as you [...]
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09, 2014
The opposite of work is ….?
If you said ‘play’ you’d be in the majority. And [...]
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09, 2014
How work is like diet and exercise
Just like the food you eat could be bad for [...]
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08, 2014
The key to wanting to go to work every day
Why is it that so many workers seem to exist as [...]
17
06, 2013
Everybody wants to feel like they matter
Everybody wants to feel like they matter, that they are [...]
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10, 2012
Which commitments do you keep?
Most people break or avoid commitments, yet for even the [...]
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11, 2011
How a dream job is like a dream relationship
There’s a helluva difference between the idea of a romantic relationship [...]
29
06, 2011
The opposite of play is …. ?
If you thought ‘Work’ Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Wrong! But you’re in crowded [...]
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06, 2011
Steve Jobs on living, loving and learning
My sister told me about Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement [...]
16
08, 2010
What would it take to get you to bite off a lamb’s testicles?
Now there's a question you need to ponder over. Not [...]
9
06, 2010
“That’s not what I asked you to do.”
Have you ever been on the receiving end of that [...]
16
04, 2010
Are you ambitious?
Many moons ago a senior director at my old company [...]
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04, 2010
“Can’t you see I’m eating?”
Here’s a reportedly true story that both asserts the state [...]
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04, 2010
The one thing to get when you have a boss
As we drove along the winding road to Maracas beach [...]
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03, 2010
Do you acknowledge people for “just” doing their jobs?
Do you think you should acknowledge people for just doing [...]
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03, 2009
Security – Good luck with that
The other day I heard someone equate security with stagnation. [...]
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04, 2008
Work. What does the word bring up for you?
This is important. Our quick fix culture is all about [...]
29
03, 2008
How much work is it to live your life as a practice?
Yesterday I wrote about my concern that living your life [...]
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03, 2008
Overwhelm
So my friend who wants to try out living his [...]