HUMAN REWARDS

 Always the question is: “How do I reward my people to maximize individual and group endeavors?”  That leads to more detailed enquiries: “What model do I follow for rewards?  How do I know if it will be effective?”   Fortunately, the answer for a model lies readily...

How do I take a Break?

In my work as a coach of CEOs I often run into leaders whose hours for their work-day or work-week would make mere mortals tremble. Last month, a study with one CEO showed that her duties encompassed 182 hours (in a 168-hour week). They say they have no choice but to...

ENTERPRISE UNITY

Group endeavors are enhanced if they are based on cooperative teamwork.  Likewise, a department of an enterprise attains superb performance if it exhibits unity or a team approach. Thus, a company imbued with teamwork from one side to the other, from top to bottom,...

Feeding or Starving the Employees

Company leaders repeatedly say something like: “Our employees are our strength” and then set out to starve those employees completely by ignoring them, berating them or treating them like less than full human beings. No leader intends to belittle an employee, but when...

THE PRACTICAL MBA

Last month we devoted the CCCC Newsletter to a recent book publication by Henry Mintzberg (1), an MBA professor at McGill University, who made the claim that our entire society is negatively and seriously affected by an inadequate and perverse MBA educational system. ...