Advancing A Culture of Leadership During Trying Times A client was recently lamenting cuts that reduced their department by 1/3. The workload hasn’t let up and their budget is down to bare bones. The clichés all fit: running the engine without oil, burning the candle at both ends, paddling against the current…..you can no doubt…
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We laugh and at times relate to cartoons of sadistic office management (think “Dilbert”). Developing office relationships in TV shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation hold a nugget of truth. Thousands of workers do not find their work reality amusing. Data on employee engagement shows that the numbers of dissatisfied and disengaged employees is…
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Question: We are an accounting business with seven full-time employees, two of whom work from home. All our people have been with us over 5 years, and we are in the process of hiring several new employees to accommodate the growth in our local market. The current workload has us working 60-70 hours and it’s…
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Remember how it felt when that kid on the playground kept changing the rules in a game of tag, and you had to be IT over and over again? Now jump forward several decades. Is everyone playing by the same rules at work? If organizational culture is defined as ‘how we do things here,’ are…
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Reading the headlines this week about Amazon’s office culture was like watching a tennis match between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic. The volley between Amazon the Tech Wonder and Amazon the Bruiser started with the New York Times article on Amazon’s work culture published August 15. Reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld served a couple aces…
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Legend has it that during a visit to the NASA space center in 1962, President Kennedy noticed a janitor working across the room. He interrupted his tour, walked over to the man and said, “Hi, I’m Jack Kennedy. What are you doing?” The janitor responded, “I’m helping put a man on the moon, Mr. President.”…
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