Archive for August, 2011
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
One impressive thing I find in working with large organizations – those with HR departments – is a focus on conducting regular performance reviews with employees. Many of these include creating development plans to help direct reports improve in needed areas. Smaller companies? Not so much. It seems every time I ask a small business [...]
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Tags: answer, aversion, behavioral trait, business, confrontation, contributor, development, employee, focus, hr departments, issue, leade, mindset, owner, performance, performance reviews, shortcoming, silent treatment, small business owner, smaller companies, sticking points, Susie, thing, time, way
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
My wife’s book club skipped this month’s meeting and attended the movie version of a novel they read: “The Help.” Afterwards, they wanted to go to a restaurant, have dessert and discuss the film. Kathy checked out a couple of nearby eateries’ websites and selected one that remained open late on a Wednesday night. Arriving [...]
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Tags: book, club, company, dessert, hostess, Kathy, location, meeting, midtown location, month, movie, novel, reading, seven women, sorry for the confusion, version, website, wednesday night, wife
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Four of my friends from church and I have lunch together once a month, rotating who picks the restaurant. These 90-minute gatherings are simply the ‘in person’ part of what plays out in email between gatherings. During those written discussions we share editorials from various online newspapers, comment on the happenings in the world and [...]
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Tags: barbs, budget deficit, church, day, devil s advocate, good humor, lines in the sand, lunch, minute, month, new legislation, part, person, political pendulum, restaurant, right, tea party, the, true growth, typical role, World
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Friday, August 26th, 2011One thing I enjoy is collecting quotes – about leadership, about success, about inspiration. I’ve been doing it for more than a decade. Whenever I come across a good one, I drop it into a Word document. So far, there are 19 pages and more than 300 inspirational citations from famous people. Often, when I’m [...]
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Tags: decade, document, Don, eleanor roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt I, famous people, few words, file, George Patton, Harry, inspiration, job, John Wooden, Leadership, lifetimes, Motivation, restroom, spark, success, thing, true power, truman harry, wonderful thought, Word, word document