07 Apr

Can You be Too Transparent, Senior Leaders?

At the Westport, Connecticut-based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates — the world’s largest, with $169 billion in assets — meetings are filmed and made available to the 1,500 employees. Employees rate each other’s performance using proprietary apps to publicly display averages
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24 Mar

This is a cut-throat culture – from Pingboard

I recently read an article on Pingboard’s 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 cultures
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17 Mar

Amazon.com and Employee Engagement

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
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26 Feb

Leaders Own Culture … Not HR

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
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10 Feb

I’ll Have an O, Please

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.
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27 Jan

The Bill Clinton Method Cheat Sheet

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
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