For two dozen years, I have used a "strength building" illustration as step one to discuss how...
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2017 – A Year of Choices, Engagement and Innovation
We are at the cusp of a new year and this tends to be the time when people consider new...
A Round Wheel Happy New Year!
We had a Christmas Day brunch at one of the finer hotels here in Greenville and, to put it simply,...
Bad Teambuilding, Good Teambuilding
I continue to be struck by how much team bonding is confused with team building. The latter has...
Monkeys, Management and Motivation – Simple Ideas
A blog about issues around corporate cultures and normative behaviors that make no apparent sense,
Are Managers simply BAD or is it the Workplace
This will be a short post, with a link to a solid article and one illustration. Gallup had an...
Santa’s Square Wheels Performance Improvement Poem
A special Holidays greeting to you with the hope that an illustrated "Getting Santa Rolling" poem...
Monday Morning Square Wheels and other thoughts
Here is our new framework for considering how things really seem to work in most organizations,...
What is Negative Reinforcement, a Square Wheels Innovation Framework
The key point here is that removing Square Wheels has widespread, natural systemic reinforcing...
It’s about Perspective Opportunity, People!
Perception. Breakfast of Champions. Or some such thing. Stepping back from the wagon to look for...
Choose Rolling over Rocking
Below are two images that represents one of those simple contemplation ideas or thoughts on life,...
A Certificate of Achievement from Drumpf University
Well, I read an article today about giving those people who enrolled and who paid for their...
Thrive Global – and a message for Supervisors everywhere
It was interesting to read Arianna Huffington's post, "Welcome to Thrive Global." As I read her...
Involve. Engage. Motivate. The Supervisor!
The leverage point is the Supervisor for most things that are not systemic. So, since I was...
Engagement. Motivation. Innovation. The Critical Importance of Supervisors
WHO in your management team has the absolute most impact on profits? Please do not delude yourself...