Organizational Culture
We are not sleep experts. We do find recent research in this area fascinating, however. Flying in the face of our belief that “super-” men and women really don’t need much sleep, it turns out that those who are not getting sufficient sleep are suffering... Read More
Great question, and the answer is that we probably don’t actually know if they do or not. Not all Wellness Programs are created equal, and it would probably take a large population over a long period of time to assess the actual impact of these... Read More
Let’s face it. The best leadership and human resource management minds in America have been trying for decades to find the formula for optimizing human performance. We’ve looked at sports teams, extreme adventurers, and heroes for ideas about how to get more with less. We’ve... Read More
SAS captured First Place for Best Places to Work again this year, for the second year in a row. They have made the list of top 100 places to work in the country for every one of the 14 years that Fortune has been publishing... Read More
Some days, you come to work early to get after that long list of things to do to meet your commitments, work hard all day, and find as you are leaving the office that you can’t check off a single thing from your list. If... Read More
For decades, business leaders and consultants have used sports analogies as a method for communicating the positive message of healthy competition and winning. It really is time to let go of that. So many sports are about short, explosive exertion, regrouping, and repeating the short,... Read More
Being in leadership, you have undoubtedly had to face the hard decision of terminating someone’s employment because they are not doing the job. The higher in the organization the derailing employee, the more complex the decision. Avoiding this decision and its consequences is the worst... Read More
Fall is here. . . time for the traditional schedule search for everyone’s favorite fall pastime: football. Even today, after all the ups and downs, scandals and even crime, football has still earned its place as America’s new pastime. How? As we shed a tear... Read More
We talk about stress and its impact on us personally. We see stress in our friends, family and co-workers and can often gauge how a stressful time is impacting their health. We know to eat well, work out and get plenty of sleep. But are... Read More
Recent sports news is saying baseball is on a very swift decline, claiming that baseball provides limited amounts of activity compared to other sports. Supposedly our brains crave more activity, more movement, even more violent collisions, like in football. This story has missed the point.... Read More
