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Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car – Ownership of Ideas
"Nobody ever washes a rental car" is a phrase I have been using in workshops and in my writings...
Simple thoughts on Rewards and Performance
I thought to weigh in here with a few thoughts on reinforcement and performance. I am going to...
Poem on Team Innovation and Motivation
Most of the time, I blog up my poems (and posters and quips) on my other blog,...
Square Wheels® a registered trademark again
We had let our original registration slip, so we went back and re-upped "Square Wheels" and just...
Dance of Death, and other images of the workplace
I will blame my old friend, Bernie DeKoven, for this blog! (grin) Bernie writes under the...
Engagement – The Day AFTER National Employee Appreciation Day
I popped up a short post on doing a Day of Un-Appreciation every year, with the idea that doing a...
National Employee UN-Appreciation DAY needed
This will be a short post and one focused on something I see as a pretty important issue. Today...
Better Roadblock Management – Dis-Un-Empowerment and Square Wheels
My regular readers know that I use images and metaphors to express a lot of my thinking. My basic...
Square Wheels will roll in Amman, Jordan
The International Association for People and Performance Development (IAPPD) is a fast-growing...
Implementing Improvement – Ideas on Brainstorming
Implementing improvement is a key role of any supervisor or manager, as is engagement and...
Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with...
Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell's blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of...
Thanksgiving, Innovation Ideas for Sustaining Success
We are going to pop up a free little Thanksgiving Conversational Toolkit focused on improving...
Sweet Feed for Herding the Cows: Ideas for Improved Organizational Results
There is a lot written out there about motivation and all sorts of complicated theories that are...