My focus for the past 40 years has been on people and performance, often with productivity and...
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Collaboration – Abstracts of Blog Posts of Scott Simmerman
Collaboration offers big benefits to organizations. It directly impacts motivation and engagement...
More Better Faster – Thoughts on collecting ideas for improvement with #morebetterfaster
There are a LOT of really good ideas out there focused on personal and organizational performance...
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,...
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...
Beautiful Math – Euler's Law and Square Wheels
This post is a little off the beaten path for the blog but I thought that this article was really...
Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
Getting the Cows to the Barn; Thoughts on Alignment and Performance
I am NOT saying that employees are cows. Just the opposite, actually. Well, guess I am not sure...
The Future of Work, The Future of The Workplace
It's dangerous for me to sit and read, sometimes, since my mind goes off into different...
A Desk is a Dangerous Place – Thoughts on Innovation and Implementation
I responded to a LinkedIn post about the issues of innovation and implementation. It was started...
7 Things You Should Do Differently to Build Better Teamwork
This is most assuredly NOT the First Rodeo for the vast majority of my readership. Many of you...
Entrepreneurial Terror – How can anyone else understand?
One of my most favorite articles of all time is one by Wilson Harrell, then an editor of Inc....