I’ve always said that people will even things out when they think there has been an injustice.  For example, you lower someone’s pay, whether they admit to it or not, they will adjust something in the relationship with the orgranization to compensate.  This may take the form of slower work, more sick days, a bad

The best way to develop an effective workforce is to hire well.  That is to say that you should hire well then pay well, train well, and promote from within.  How else are you going to retain these fine folks?  One of the challenges of promoting from within is that the skills that made someone

Here’s an exercise that’s a real eye opener.  For some of you, this may even leave a bad taste in your mouth.  Take a look at the results your team is getting.  Make list of the results, good and bad, and begin to think about what these results tell you about your team. Specifically, you

It is often said that failure is life’s greatest teacher and I think there is a lot to learn from our mistakes and our failures, but research shows that this is not the case.  MIT researcher, Earl K. Miller, and his associates have identified that success, not failure, has a bigger impact on our learning

A seminar participant was lamenting that she has to watch her employees like a hawk.  She said that if she didn’t watch them all day long and tell them what to do at each step of the way, they wouldn’t get anything done.  Can you see the problem with this situation? What are these employees

My wife’s grandfather used to walk around his factory every morning, greeting each employee by name and catching up on what was going on with their work and their life.  This morning routine took a good amount of time, but whenever someone mentioned that he might want to stop, he assured them that this was