I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...
Involving and Engaging People
Corporate Engagement Hasn’t Worked – Why not try Disruptive Engagement?
What is your reaction to these statements? "I'm from Human Resources and I am here to help you."...
Mini-blog on Employee Engagement and Active Involvement – Trust and all that
I generally post up pretty complete thoughts and frameworks but this one is more of a blurt. The...
Trust in the Sand
My colleagues in Romania just sent me an email about one of their blog posts on leadership that...
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN?
If not you, WHO? If not now, WHEN? I love that short little quote about personal accountability...
Engagement – Think Local, Act Local
I was reading an article on adapting things like HomeKit and Echo into the way people interact...
Intrinsic Motivation – It comes from having a goal
My friend Jimmy Jain posted up a picture of himself after running a race. The images of him below...
Spring Forward Monday™ is March 13, 2017 – A Square Wheels® Solution
Okay, March 13 is a Monday. But it is also the Monday after Sunday morning's loss of an hour's...
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,...
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...
What is it with “Engagement?” Why can’t we drive it forward More Better Faster?
I was shocked and amazed to see, after we have spent billions of dollars on surveys and...
Workplace FUN – ONE stupidly simple idea
Gallup just published a report that showed that only 35% of male managers in the US are engaged in...
Meetings. Making Creative Sessions more Creatively Discussing
This will be a simple expansion of some ideas for how a supervisor might hold an involving and...
Teambuilding Exercise – Overview of Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
My associate in India emailed me with the info that he had just run his 169th session involving...