According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, employers could lose up to $1.9 billion in wages due to the 60 million American workers who devour the NCAA men’s basketball tournament (aka March Madness) while at work. With the Championship
I recently read an article on the Pingboard website, a company that provides employee directory software, about the toxic nature of cut-throat workplace cultures. In addition to creating a sea of unproductive, miserable employees who give no discretionary effort, cut-throat
As reported recently by Bloomberg Business, workers at some Amazon.com warehouses get a steady stream of company-provided reading: the stories of co-workers fired for theft. In an effort to discourage stealing, Amazon has put up flat screen TVs that display
Last week we talked about the fact that many senior leaders hand-off culture and employee engagement to Human Resources (HR) to manage. Why? Because leaders hear the word people or employee and immediately think, “We have a group who is
In its simplest form, culture at work is “the way we do things here.” Who is the we? The we is all the employees, which is why senior leaders hand-off culture to Human Resources to manage. Many leaders hear the
I speak a lot about choice because your life is just that – one big choice. Are you going to play small or play big? Are you going to be shackled by fear or live courageously? Unfortunately, most people choose
Yes, some things happen to us in life that we do not choose. However, when you take your last breath, what you experienced on Earth will largely be due to the choices you made and the choices you didn’t make.
When I finished writing my book, I read it and had an epiphany. It occurred to me that in general, men are not good at the first four chapters, basically, “getting it” – people matter most and employees must be
In survey after survey, when employees are asked their preferred method to receive information, 70 percent select face-to-face small team meeting or one-on-one conversation. So although our world is inundated with ways to communicate electronically, people still prefer to connect
Today we welcome guest blogger Alex Kjerulfis from Denmark, founder of Woohoo Inc., and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work. He has done keynotes in 30 countries for clients like IBM, LEGO, IKEA, and Microsoft, and