My focus for the past 40 years has been on people and performance, often with productivity and...
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Facilitation and Motivation – Ideas for workplace improvement
"Fear is the Mindkiller," was repeated incessantly in the Dune books of Frank Herbert. Fear is...
Best Practices – Performance Shortcuts that need sharing
My thinking for the past 30 years has been about people and performance, about innovation and peer...
Poems and Haiku on People and Performance – Square Wheels themes
I was trying out some new image capture software and got into taking some screenshots of some...
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...
The Workplace and the Work – Thoughts on the 8-hour day
I've posted up a number of things about the workplace over the years, and also about a lot of the...
Trust and Respect: Should you force your managers to lie, PlanetFitness?
I wrote a few weeks ago about the Wade Hampton PlanetFitness gym and their apparent policy of zero...
Zero Engagement at PlanetFitness?
For almost a year, I have gone to the PlanetFitness operation not far from my office. They did a...
Issues of Workplace Over-Connectedness and Vacation Day Giveaways
This is the third post in this series on working, over-connectedness and the reality that many are...
A Few Stats on Workplace Fantasy Football
I thought that this was interesting data, so I report it here: Fantasy Football’s cost to lost...
Quotes by James Madison about Liberty and Freedom
I sometimes get political because I AM focused on people and performance, goals and expectations,...
Weed Killers, Bug Killers and Organizational Development
We spend a LOT of money on weed control and bug killers for our yards and gardens. We spend tiny...
Workplace Happiness – Why are so many unhappy?
I sure wish I had a silver bullet on this issue of the workplace and how to make it better. There...
KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Collaboration
Complex, convoluted and risky. That is today's workplace for most people. Nothing seems simple...
Working while Not Working – The Problem of Overconnectedness
I wrote a blog up a year ago about statistics on work and working and the interconnection with...