When team members clash, disaster strikes. Project deadlines are missed, HR referees team members, the boss is angry for a week, and the raises everyone expects vanishes in the face of discord.
These clashes typically occur because the team’s personalities get in the way. Each team member has their own unique personality mix which […]
There is a myth that great speakers are born, not made. This is based on the misconception that somehow certain individuals have the innate ability to stand in front of an audience with no anxiety and give a moving, dynamic speech. The truth is, however, that great speakers generally spend years developing and […]
Out in the forest or in our neighborhood, we recognize a firefighter rather easily: a heavily-clad person, holding a fire hose, walking up or down a ladder, or performing some other tasks that reduce or end a conflagration.
Managers, consultants, and others are often expected to be “fire fighters.” Here we do not wear […]
In our experience, we have found that there are several reasons managers fail to get employees to see and acknowledge that they have a problem.
They assume. Many managers bypass the step of getting agreement because they assume that an employee views the problem in the same way that they do. However, that is often not […]
Happy Bingxu!!! (No, we haven’t gone off the deep end - yet!)
Bingxu happens to be the Chinese name for the year 2006, which started January 29th. The Chinese calendar runs in 60-year cycles (this relates to the orbital period of Jupiter). You should do a google search on 60-year cycles some time and see what […]