Don’t Piss Off Your Employees

During the Covid-19 period, I wrote my 28th book titled “Discovering the Awful Truth” which summarized my 20-year frustration with business leaders who, while paying me great sums of money to nod their heads in agreement, would not take the step to nurture their...

Three Little Friends

We humans are what we are because evolution has brought us to this place; but not without the aid of three significant inherent chemicals, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, sometimes respectively called reward hit, happy drug, and hug hormone. How do they play roles...

Revisiting the Amygdala

The amazing power of the pair of amygdala glands in our brains was shared with readers (in the CCCC July 2009 newsletter1), which described how the two amygdalae helped us achieve success. Today, we will discover how these same glands lead to worldwide misery...

Rotten Apples

I never cease to be amazed by the all-too-common habit of leaders choosing not to get rid of rotten apples. That is, leaders, on a regular basis, retain people who are clearly holding the company back and who, obviously, are out of place in their current positions. If...