I’m back from Christmas with my in-laws in Southern Virginia. As much as I enjoy the annual visit from the jolly fat man, this year he left us a rather unsavory gift - the stomach flu. Fortunately, he was nice about it and left us the kind that has the courtesy to wait until the [...]

I belong to a marketing listserve and a member posted an email he received from Chris Cardell, a marketing consultant. While Chris succumbs at times to a roaring bout of hubris in his message, he reminded me of a simple, golden principle: you get what you give. It’s a powerful idea and appropriate for this [...]

Now that I can actually post to the blog again (goodbye TypePad?), I want to write about something that I’ve been itching to produce since last Friday. Beware, a rant is brewing…
On my way to work, NPR’s Morning Edition had a brief segment called Salary Level May Not Indicate Contentment. If you go to NPR’s [...]

Chris Corrigan at Parking Lot offers ten strategies for making meetings work. His post directly addresses public meetings, but the ideas play well when you have to facilitate any gathering where passions run high and conflict is inevitable. Among the highlights are:

Be prepared and curious. Come into the meeting room curious. Be curious about the [...]

In the past, the topic of generations in the workplace didn’t really appeal to me as something to explore more deeply (although I did delve into it back in February). But then, Jodee Bock wrote a recent post called Identity Crisis where, in a recent training she held for supervisors, she encountered a recurring theme [...]