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Opportunity
This is the human condition… We all want to do more, make more money, have more to show for our efforts. And we all also …
I used to have a career
How do you actually get any work done when you spend half the day reading emails? Even worse, when you spend half the day reading …
The secret to innovation
Having spent a good part of last week at the Dpharm Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials Conference, in Boston, we came away with some …
Self actualized employees
Not everybody on your team is going to be super successful. Not everyone is going to be a unicorn. But that shouldn’t stop you from …
Become the company you would want to do business with.
There’s a wonderful Chinese word, “De”, which loosely means “Virtue” or “Integrity”. Of course, it means SO MUCH MORE than that. “De” is a very …
Shared sense of purpose
Everybody knows how critical a shared sense of mission is to a team’s fortunes. Napoleon and Julius Caesar certainly knew it, and they …
Do something that matters
This is an idea that’s gotten a lot of mileage since its debut, over five years ago. It works well, of course, simply …
Think Outside The Box
To paraphrase David Ogilvy: “Most people hate to think, and will go to great lengths to avoid it”. I hear what he’s saying; it …
Building Dreams
It’s nice to have dreams. It’s what human progress is made of. As a cartoonist, I know all about it. I spend most …
what should HR do?
The future of HR is tied to culture. Who owns the culture in your organization? Marketing? The CEO? The engineers? The guys in the mail room? …
Some thoughts on positive vs. negative messaging
Back in my advertising days, it always surprised me just how much easier it was to write a negative ad than a positive one. i.e. …
Engagement Belief Emotion
According to Harvard Business review, about 85% of change initiatives inside large companies fail. Why? Because, like we’re fond of telling our culture change clients, …
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