Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

Inspire Someone Today

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

The level of disatisfaction for employees at work has never been higher. Studies by Mercer and Deloitte show that 65% of employees are either actively or passively looking for another job. The Employee Engagement Report 2011 published by BlessingWhite, Inc. found that only 31% of employees worldwide are engaged and only 61% of employees worldwide [...]

How We Learn to Lead Without Integrity

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Let’s assume that Bloomberg (the publishers of Businessweek) understand their target audience. Let’s also assume that their target audience are the executives and leaders of our corporations, academia, healthcare and political institutions. In other words, these are the people who lead and guide and are the custodians of our society. A recent article in two [...]

Loyalty not Lock-in

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

I’ve often wondered why my wireless provider needs to put handcuffs on me in order to provide the services I need. It’s taken me a while, and a lot of insufferable service and interactions, but I’ve finally figured out the reason. If you provide†services that are so bad that customers would defect at their earliest [...]

Lead Your Team to the Dream

Friday, June 10th, 2011

The sixth President of the United States was a very smart man. John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” For a long time we have known that having a dream is an integral part of greatness – in sports, [...]

New Spirit@Work(R) Cards

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

For some time corporations, individuals, coaches and consultants have been using our Spirit@Work Cards with great success†to help achieve breakthroughs in Leadership Development and to build inspiring teams, and organizations.† They are used to start meetings, break deadlocks in teams, facilitate discussion, enrich and guide coaching relationships,†introduce spirit and values into conversations,† and add a [...]