I received a referral for a new client a few months ago. The person who sent it was certain this business owner could benefit from working with me. Given the strength of the referral, I worked especially hard to make contact with the prospective client/business owner. I just did a quick count of the text…
In my work as a business consultant and grad school adjunct professor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve invoked Dan Pink’s three-point outline from his brilliant 2009 book, Drive. Employees want three things in their work life – Autonomy – the ability to control what they do, how they do it, when they…
It’s not good advice for safe motoring, but it is the name of two exceptional books about workplace performance. The books were written 10 years apart, but as I recently read both of them, almost back-to-back, I was struck by the complimentary messages. First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman was the end result…