April 30, 2014
April 30, 2014
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The work world is smaller and spinning faster than ever. Many of us keep up by moving faster, doing more work with fewer people and modifying processes to minimize cost. That is what makes profits grow. But it may not distinguish us from others. Imagine if you could stop time for an hour. Chances are most of us would use that hour to clean off our desks, reply to emails or perform other tasks that give us a false sense of accomplishment. Since information is coming faster than ever, you would gain little ground with that spent hour. An empty […]
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June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013
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One-half of the new employees hired leave their positions within one year, according the Dan Heath co-author of Decisive: How To Make Better Choices in Life and Work. This suggests employers are too quick to hire and the candidate may be too quick to accept. Heath offers these reasons for poor decisions; narrow framing such as “whether or not thinking;” confirmation bias; short-term emotions; and overconfidence. The acronym WRAP is used to combat these decision villains. Widen your options. Whenever you find yourself in the “whether or not” decision, stop. Allow that thinking to be an alarm. One technique is […]
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September 27, 2012
September 27, 2012
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People continue fill each day to its maximum. As the world appears to get smaller and move faster, lack of time to relax, think and plan may lead to poor choices, anxiety and incivility. There is a myth that the Indians didn’t see Columbus’ ships because they couldn’t relate to such a large object on the water. It’s believed the myth is based on Captain Cook traveling to Australia. The aborigines didn’t acknowledge the ship until men approached the shore by canoe. Was it that the aborigines couldn’t see the big ship? Social scientists exploring this phenomenon of perceptual blindness […]
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January 1, 2010
January 1, 2010
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Often at the end of the year, people review everything that was not accomplished. It’s similar to the feeling many get Sunday evening when they wonder what happened to the weekend, but on a grand scale. People resolve that the new year will be different. They resolve to make adjustments, to be happier, richer and wiser. Human resource professionals resolve to update the Employee Handbook, audit wages, make time to see every employee and get out of hosting the holiday party. Supervisors resolve to write honest, direct performance appraisals, give more atta-boys and work less hours. Unfortunately, by February most […]
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