How Do I Cope With A Sucky Job?
Work sucks more when your attitude sucks. This job sucks!” I muttered as I shuffled back to my desk. Barely had the words left my mouth when a co-worker happily…
How Do You Deal With The Bad Apple?
Behavior modification made easy… Let’s face it, we can pick our nose but we can’t all pick our teams. It would be great to be able to “Kingdom Build” (as…
How About A Little Grace?
I’ll admit it. I have some hair triggers that push me past the point of good judgement. I won’t name them and, most of the time, I have a really…
The Workforce Is Changing
“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte The workforce is changing and we need to change with it. None of us are old enough to remember the…
Retention Is EVERYONE’S Job!
Do you know why the US Navy works hard to retain their best and brightest? It’s because they can’t hire senior leadership from the outside. They have to grow their…
Your Presentation Matters
In Navy, “Salty Dog” language, I was a big soup sandwich. I was consistently late to work, was always in need of a hair cut, and my uniforms looked like…
What’s The Point?
“ARE YOU SERIOUS!?” I thought to myself as I got off the phone with my supervisor. This was the fourth time I had reworked this report – each time having…
Mistakes Leaders Make
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it, but it always makes me laugh. It could be that I’ve always been a John Cusack fan or that the…
Millennials: Entitlement or Positive Expectation?
“I’ll be running that place in a few weeks!” was my daughter, Victoria’s, near immediate response after she got her first job at Marshall’s. Within a few weeks after starting…
Don’t Worry About Being Liked
If I had a voodoo doll, it would’ve been saturated with pins! There wasn’t a day that he didn’t frustrate me and, when I would confront him on his method,…