by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
With an original title of “Power Corrupts” for this paper, I changed gears in mid-stream because of the facts emanating from a book sharing the above eponymy. The truth of the matter is human behavior takes us down a certain path, one we have been following for over...
by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
Around 1995 I attended a conference about a new mail service called the Internet that reached anywhere in the world for free. It was almost too good to be true. When I returned to my high-tech office in Ottawa of SPS (300 employees in 6 cities) to tell my engineers,...
by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
We all know that there is no such thing as painless learning, but CCCC, over the past five years put in an effort to make learning as easy as we could. Perhaps we have made history as we valiantly competed for 1 with universities’ MBA programs by ours, which was...
by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
At the Practical MBA (as discussed in our September newsletter), the students were questioned at the end of each learning day about any ‘pearl of wisdom’ that they wanted to hold onto that had come either from the lecturers or from other students. The results,...
by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
More than once, company leaders have expressed concerns to me of negative attitudes, mutual whining sessions, or complaints of what seem to be minor problems by groups of individuals in the workplace. Naturally, my first response to the leader is either to suggest...
by billc | Nov 12, 2020 | Newsletters
What a terrible pity that employees who gripe about their work and, therefore, place a low value on the job experience – other than a means to put bread on the table – have missed the real point. Most people fail to realize the psychological importance of work to...
