Goal setting activities: Your 2017 guide (you’s welcome)

Goal setting activities

Process is important when setting goals and strategy, but it can’t be allowed to overwhelm actual productive results. Continue Reading

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We think about business competition all wrong

Business Competition

Stop thinking your rivals’ market share is some flag you need to capture, and then maybe we can fix a few societal ills as well. Continue Reading

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Busy Busy Busy: Why are Americans so obsessed?

Busy Busy Busy

Get off the cross, as others need the wood. Continue Reading

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The United States of Nervous Wrecks

Nervous Wrecks

Work = stress = anxiety = we’re all popping meds = guys getting richer = less scratch for us = anxiety = we’re all nervous wrecks. Continue Reading

Strategy and planning somehow became buzzwords

Strategy and planning

It’s less about the allowable buzzwords for executives, and more about keeping a majority of people in the loop re: what’s happening. Continue Reading

Incentive programs need two major changes

Incentive programs

A lot of incentive deals at companies are usually just “the rich get richer and maybe possibly I’m not sure maybe someone in the low middle can get a plane ticket but not positive only maybe.” We need to adjust some of this. Continue Reading

Leadership skills list: Self-reflection should be, uh, high

Leadership Skills List

Self-awareness is way more valuable to have as a manager than “revenue-generation skills.” Continue Reading

The no time for that work culture will make you weep

No time for that

Screeching, yelping, bellowing, and hollering — all devoid of context and assistance. Continue Reading