I’ve been going around saying “Love is just damn good business” for a long time, because I thoroughly believe that if you operationalize love on a daily basis in your work life, you will be… Read more
How to Work With People When They Are Wrong and You Are Right
If there’s ever been a time with such a politically and socially polarized mood among Americans, it wasn’t in my lifetime, and I wouldn’t want to go back there. It’s gotten to the point where… Read more
Google Did Something Big for Its Workers (You Can Google It)! You Should Try It
Google sent a memo out to its employees recently that was so unusual for the Silicon Valley giant that it made headlines. In short, it said: Hey, everybody! Time to focus on what we hired… Read more
How To Love What You Do Even If You Don’t Love Your Job
Graduation speakers, romantic comedies, and even our best friends from our freshman year of college have all, collectively, sold us a bill of goods. It turns out, you probably won’t get hit by Cupid’s arrow… Read more
4 Things Leaders Do When They Are Nervous About Talking With Employees
Making the decision to move from a 3,200-square-foot suburban home to an 1,800-square-foot condo in the Little Italy area of downtown San Diego was not easy for my wife and me. As you might expect,… Read more
Take It Outdoors. Low-cost Big Payoff Health Benefits
If you’re old enough to know what Geritol is, you may remember their TV commercial of yesteryear that showed a hale and hearty woman farmer declaring, “When you’ve got your health, you’ve got just about everything.”… Read more
How To Put An End To Chronic Complaining
I just happened to be walking past the TV not too long ago and saw the Today show’s third hour, the one where they deal with less serious topics. The anchors were talking about something… Read more
How to Invite Collaboration without Inviting People to Live in AirPods on a Cubicle Farm
When you’re the person who makes the seating chart, you have a lot of power and also a serious responsibility to optimize a functioning workplace. There’s a whole Myers-Briggs personality chart of different needs to… Read more
4 Ways To Engage People Who Don’t Want To Be Happy
You know what to do with an underperforming employee, but what about an efficient but difficult one? I’m a strong believer that you can’t be too positive or too empathetic in the business world. Yes, a lot of places… Read more
How to Sing in Harmony with the Negative Voices in Your Head
A couple of Aussie musicians taught me that my true voice is louder than the small voices telling me to stop believing in myself. Knowledge and inspiration can come from the most unexpected sources. You can read… Read more
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