Dec

19

2011

The Greatest Drag to Employee Productivity

Successful leaders come in all sizes, shapes, personalities, and backgrounds.  Yet across the great diversity of leaders I have either coached or consulted with over the past 20 years in business, I find two striking similarities  First, they share a common passion to maximize both organizational and personal productivity.  Second, they also share a common mistake, for they often miss the mark on the single greatest drag to their team’s productivity.

It is typically not a lack of technology that drags down productivity.  Most companies today are more digitally driven and software-savvy than ever before.

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Dec

12

2011

Unwrapped Gifts

Imagine giving your kids a big, beautifully wrapped gift…that they never open!

If your kids are anything like my son (a normal, healthy, happy, and active boy who LOVES getting gifts), you’d say “how ridiculous.”  Of course if I give them a gift, they’ll open it and find something of value inside.

Yet so often today, across America and the world, people at work are filled with internal gifts that are ignored, overlooked, or simply left unwrapped.

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Oct

19

2011

Should Executives Care About Social Media?

A good friend and an editor of a national trade magazine to which I am a contributing editor recently asked me the following.

“I’d like to write an Editor’s Notes column on the dark side of social media, and I’d like your thoughts about whether it’s worth a [industry omitted] exec’s time to worry about what his employees think of his company–particularly now that they have ways to broadcast their views.”

Here’s my response.

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