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Your employees and partners are looking to you for direction. Perhaps you’re also looking for direction “upstairs”, whether that’s bosses, industry leaders, regulators, or whoever.
But there are many ways that top-down direction can fail:
Read the rest of this entry »The Great Resignation, or Great Reshuffling, or whatever you call it. I’m talking to a whole bunch of people who are re-prioritizing, re-examining, and re-thinking what their work is about.
It’s a major factor in how employees are making decisions right now.
Part of the problem is that everyone has their own priorities and sense of balance. More than ever, it really matters if you have small kids, elderly parents, or are thinking of buying a house when prices are going through the roof.
Read the rest of this entry »For some of us, things are slowing down. For others, it’s a crazy time of year. Hopefully you’ll have a chance for things to settle, perhaps in January or after April 15th or during next summer.
The point is that we all need a break from the intensity of work.
And not just the weekends. Those are very necessary and vital, but aren’t sufficient. What we need is the chance to REALLY check out of our work. For a week or two or three.
Read the rest of this entry »We live in an imperfect world. Which means that things are always less than ideal, less than perfect.
There are three ways to come to peace with this fact: First, to change the world to be what you want it to be. Second, to change your expectations to agree with what the world gives you.
But there’s a surprising alternative:
Read the rest of this entry »We all know that the boat which wins the race will be the one where each person is contributing their most to all go in the same direction. If one person is disengaged, or worse yet, out of sync, progress will be slow.
Or no progress at all. Or even backwards.
Yet this happens all the time in organizations. People are minimally “doing their job,” yes, but not really that engaged.
Read the rest of this entry »I’ve been recently dealing with a death in the family, which instantly changed my perspective on what’s really critical in life.
I understand being very focused on business issues, customers, employees, and profitability. Yes, those are important.
At the same time, we all realize that there are other things which push those to the background. If you’re sick, you’ll focus on that so you can get back to business and give it the time and energy it deserves.
Read the rest of this entry »We work our butts off, and do everything we can for business success. Many times it feels like I’m so tied up in it that there’s nothing else.
Then something comes up that makes me realize there are more important things.
My mother died recently, so of course there a lot of logistical things to take care. But more important are the relationships I’m reconnecting, all over the world. And it’s fascinating to see how my friends and colleagues support me, even though they never met her.
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It’s wonderful to be the boss, right? You get all the recognition and glory while your people do all the hard work.
Yeah, I don’t see that either.
The truth is that if you want to have time for your life, in any position at all, you have to create it.
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The work is never done. Ever.
It’s a fact of our modern life, really. And I’m sure you feel this in your business; there’s an infinite supply of stuff to be done and things to worry about.
The question is, though: What really matters?
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Our dryer broke down yesterday, right in the middle of doing laundry. So I had the joy of sitting in the laundromat feeling quite annoyed.
It’s not like I didn’t have work to do!
But business DOES impinge on personal, and vice versa. If you just got beat up by a customer, there’s a good chance your family is going to feel the aftereffects.
We’d like to think that we can neatly compartmentalize these things.
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The Values-Based Business 