I am sitting on the bed in Mumbai, looking at emails and thinking about how well the strategy...
Performance Management Blog
Ideas on People and Performance, Team Building, Motivation and Innovation
Tripping to India to do Strategy Implementation and Team Building
The past month has been quite a journey, even before I head off to Mumbai once again. My passport...
Dis-Un-Empowered Government Employee – Scott to the rescue of the citizens!
If it were not so sad, it would be funny. With a friend and parking in an Asheville, NC downtown...
Motivation? It is feedback, not extrinsic motivators, the drive performance
I think the biggest opportunity to improve performance is through good, positive, immediate...
Biggest Mistakes in Motivating People
I think the biggest mistake we make is in thinking that you can add THINGS to motivate people....
Beware Best Practices, They Can Kill Productivity, Innovation and Growth – Adopt Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter
REALLY?? Best Practices can KILL productivity, innovation and growth? Someone wrote that as an...
Ideas, Innovation and Strategy Implementation – Getting Things Done More Better Faster
I have loved this quote since I first heard it 15 years ago at a conference: If we're not getting...
On Brainstorming and workplace productivity improvement
I recently responded to a LinkedIn post on the theme of Brainstorming. And I am reminded about how...
Motivating People, Motivating Teams
Extrinsic Reward Systems are Perpetuating Workplace Problems There! I said it as clearly as I can....
Empowerment, disempowerment, un-empowerment, and Dis-UN-empowerment
I've been playing with the notion of empowerment for a long time. Heck, my first speech on this...
Workplace Motivation Improvement – Easy!
It is commonly believed that the fate of many companies could be altered for the better if workers...
Simple thoughts on Innovation and Creativity and Change
We can find innovation difficult, especially when we are charged with helping to generate it in...