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Hugged Your Employees Lately?

Ever been an employee on the front line most of, or all your life?

Leaders, do you have any idea what it’s like to spend your career working for people like you?

Your employees complain about you as much as you complain about them being high-maintenance, needy, and whiney. It’s simply a fact of life and any amount of denial is ignorant.

Most leaders are good at never letting their employees see or hear this. And employees are good at keeping their secrets too.

Quite amusing actually, because neither one thinks the other knows.

Maybe we simply learn to tune it out the same way we slowly, steadily tune out our declining health, and fail to ever make transformational changes to reverse the slow, steady, and sure signs.

We medicate ourselves with our work, with our misery, and we flock to people who share our pain and frustration.

When maybe, we should find that emotional strength we found buried deep inside us that was rediscovered in the days following 9/11.

Maybe then we could justify hugging our employees. Maybe then transformational change could begin and a new era of teamwork and respect could have wings of hope.

Privacy Is A Myth

Pick one that still has potential to live on in society:

Privacy
Confidentiality

Privacy is dead. It’s done. Toast. History.

Social media has insured that nothing is private anymore. It’s no secret who you are and what you do – unless it’s hardly worth noticing.

Our only hope? Confidentiality. Otherwise known as trust with the spoken word.

Only fools still believe in privacy. Businesses grapple with and “pray” about this everyday. Much the way the Music Industry grappled and prayed that Napster would go away.

It didn’t. Thank you Napster. And, iTunes.

Still skeptical? Social media is here to stay, has overtaken pornography as the number one Internet activity, and as if that weren’t enough, enter You Tube:

Perseverance

Determination. Perseverance. Dreams.

Everybody talks about how important perseverance is. It’s no secret that without big dreams, determination, and steady, committed effort, leaders are doomed to mediocrity.

But when was the last time you told the story of your own success through perseverance?

And how about the time before that? And the one before that one?

Perseverance is a habit. You either do it all the time, or you don’t do it at all.

And once you learn the habit of never giving up, you will also learn the habit of focusing on your purpose.

And when you finally discover your purpose, well, you know what happens next….

Hugged Your Leader Lately?

It’s so commonplace to hear people complaining about their boss, isn’t it?

And it’s overlooked because of two reasons:

It’s never done in front of the boss
It’s so common it becomes an invisible poison

Have you ever been a leader? In today’s economic climate?

Can you comprehend how challenging it must be?

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin

Cheesy MBAs

If you read this blog’s comments, you’ll know that we have recently come to the finish line with our MBA discussion.

An MBA by itself is worthless.

The effort to successfully receive it, priceless.

But overwhelmingly, it’s the unrealistic expectations people have about what an MBA delivers that are dangerous.

Mike Reardon and Bob Stewart shared another insight in their comments – the degree doesn’t catapult your career, but it does serve as an indicator for a person’s determination and drive.

And there is no denying that an MBA is a life-changing challenge and major accomplishment.

Now, just wanted to go on the record: Blogging is overrated.

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