loyalty

Honest Debate is Dead

July 27, 2011

Last night, Jon Stewart’s guest Juan Williams brought up a point that I whole heartedly agree with: You can’t bring up opposing viewpoints without being marginalized or dismissed by the opposition. I see this with people’s perspective towards negative thinking. If you bring up an objection, identify a flaw or see an issue that might [...]

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Leader or Pusher?

April 20, 2011

Where do you stand when you and your team head in to the battle of business? Are you amongst the troops, ready to fight beside them and defend them until the end? Or are you sipping tea in your command post looking over maps and pushing pieces around a board safe from the fray? Pushers: [...]

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Generation Y and Loyalty Article Now Available

June 29, 2010

I’ve just added an new article to the archives relating to Company Loyalty and the New Workforce. You can find it here! Tweet

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Millennial President

November 5, 2008
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We have a new president after an historic election. Not only do we have the first African-American president, but Gen X and Y have their first leader as well. As MSNBC points out the Youth vote may have been key in Obama’s win: Early reports are indicating that the youngest members of the country’s electorate [...]

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Watercooler replaced with Facebook?

October 29, 2008

How do we keep a generation of workers, who have seen faceless companies’ layoff their parents en masse after years of loyalty, loyal to us? If their parents, who worked hard only to see the unemployment line or find work elsewhere, didn’t get the loyalty from their company, why will this new generation look at [...]

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Workplace Wednesday meets Monkey Monday: Monkeying Around at Work!

September 3, 2008

Seems we can learn quite a bit about ourselves and our workplace by looking at chimps in the wild. Creationists will not agree with this article, but then again, I don’t agree with creationist so I’ll split the difference and post it anyway! From The Australian: IF you occasionally walk into the office thinking “this [...]

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Generation Y: The What’s and How’s of the New Workforce

June 9, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I was working in Puerto Rico the past week, delivering two programs for a great organization. My wife joined me since it was our anniversary (Happy Anniversary Honey!). She never asks to go to Des Moines or Cleveland, but Puerto Rico…she’s going. We had a great time and [...]

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Who’s the boss? And are they any good?

April 3, 2008

I’ve had a lot of bosses and I’ve been the boss on occasion. It’s not easy if you are or have a bad boss. But how do you know? I mean, c’mon, as a manager, who hasn’t been burned in effigy? Is that really a good barometer? And just because employees say “I hate you, [...]

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Loyalty to a fault. Your fault.

March 19, 2008

We hit two big milestones yesterday. First off, we hit 10,000 hits!!! Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting. And, secondly, thanks to the traffic from FARK.com yesterday we hit another one day high and if we have an average day, today will be another all time high. So keep reading and I’ll do my [...]

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