I recently read that only 44% of businesses survive the first 5 years! That gives D&A a great reason to celebrate in 2019 – our 30th year. I didn’t think running my own business was a good fit for me…. Read More
Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category
Building an Adaptive Organization
How does one go about building an adaptive firm? Increase the Visibility of Opportunity This can be accomplished through careful job design. Work should have defined objectives for which people will be responsible. Each organizational level should be kept… Read More
Engaged!!!
Congratulations! People who get engaged usually receive lots of congratulatory support. You have made a commitment to get married. You start to plan your life together and plan the official public ceremony to kick off the legal bond of matrimony…. Read More
How Can We Find/Get/Keep More —-
Many organizations bemoan the lack of female and minority candidates for senior management and executive positions. I don’t know where they are looking or what they are doing, but there is no secret about how to find them. attract them,… Read More
Lots of Choices and Lots of Uncertainty
There are so many options to choose from in today’s world. Have you noticed how many different Crest toothpastes there are to consider? I have been frozen in the grocery aisle when I see how many types of Cheerios I… Read More
I Want To But I Haven’t — Yet
I recognized a description in a novel of a character that reminded me of a few people I run across: “Just about anything you haven’t done in life you were totally planning to do – you just haven’t done it… Read More
Showing Up is Not Enough
High self-confidence and self-esteem can prevent people from improving: if you are not aware of what needs improving, how can you get better?
Engaged: Near or Far
Employee engagement is what organizations are focused on today and the success or failure to create an engaged workforce lies squarely between the manager and the employee. It’s been said that people join organizations but stay because of management.
Show Them They Have Value
It doesn’t seem to matter what industry, organizational level, or number of years a manager has in their job; the biggest error I see the boss making is thinking that they need to have all of the answers. It’s not… Read More
Who Wants the Truth?
I’m delighted that these folks want to engage my services. They want to achieve their goals. They just don’t want to simply engagement my services …. they want our work together to be fast, pain free, easy, inexpensive and brilliant.