Wow.  I’m delinquent Marc.   I looked up the definition of that word and it works with me on so many levels.   I also had an interesting lunch with a friend and colleague.   Let’s call him Bob.  It’s not really Bob, but we’ll call him that anyway.  So, Bob and I were having lunch […]

My older son Josh is goldbricking on the government dime, waiting for seeds to “do something” so that he can collect them and send them to the Doomsday Vault in Norway, near the Arctic Circle. Yea, that’s his job. And we are all paying for him, since he is working under a government […]

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Instead of my normal feckless banter about various issues, I thought I would talk a little more about the 2008-9 Employee Hold’em Workforce Engagement Benchmark results…  Interesting stuff, so I thought I would share:
What Issues Are Most Critical To Employees Based on Their Tenure?

< 90 Days            Daily Satisfaction is the only driver of engagement […]

OK, I need to fess up.  I got online today, downloaded a recipe for a mocha frappuccino from some arbitrary website (blame google).  Strong coffee, hershey’s syrup, hershey’s cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and then a secret ingredient… Mocha Chocolate Chip ice cream from Graeters, an ice cream shop in Cincinnati.  Combine it all, add about […]

2 points make a line… 3 points make a trend.  I’m going for a long trend… Yea, I’ll get this thing written and published on Wednesdays if it kills me… which would ultimately stop the blog being written at all… Circular logic, sweet!
Oh the Inequity
The CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield CEO recently had his severance package cut […]

I’ll be headed to Grand Junction, Colorado in a couple months, going back to a place I love going to.  I’m conducting a three hour Employee Hold’em Seminar, similar to others I have conducted in the past.  This one will be somewhat different, as we are concentrating on the information in our next book, Employee […]

Yea, it’s been a week.  A trying week.  I’m struggling with work-life-life-work balance.  Actually, “struggling” isn’t the right word.  Balance isn’t the right word.  Blend isn’t the right word either.  I sometimes just want to quit a job I never applied for, and on most days, don’t think I am qualified for.  But who else […]

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You Get What You Pay For
According to a newly released Hay Group Survey, one in twelve companies use turnover metrics in their executive’s performance, and more and more companies are pushing the metrics to the middle mangers.
Shocking, huh???  Companies tying turnover rates to middle managers.  What, they just figured out that employees quit a […]

It’s one of my favorite movies.  Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and the delightful Jamie Lee Curtis.  Financial intrigue, the comic genius of Murphy and Aykroyd, even a gratuitous sex scene (if you don’t watch it on regular TV).  Is there anything better than watching Jamie Lee Curtis in pigtails acting “Svedish” during the New Year’s […]