I just finished a 90 minute webinar with my co-author Stephen Hundley and my friends at World at Work. I laughed, I made jokes, I wrote down a couple of new things Doc. Hundley said (I tend to steal his material while forgetting to give him credit… go figure).
My son flew in from Wyoming to […]

Some things happen so quickly.
Others feel like an eternity.
And for the last 31 months, I have been squarely stuck in the middle.  Cursing when things happen too fast, and cursing just as loud when they don’t occur quickly enough.  Angry at my mother for putting the daily burden of responsibility of my father on me […]

Grand Junction, Colorado was a lovely setting for the WCHRA conference last week.  I gave the opening keynote address, a three-hour marathon session which covered the financial costs and benefits of workforce engagement and retention, highlights of our 2008-09 Employee Hold’em National Workforce Engagement Benchmark, and of course…  “the game”, now played by over 11,000 […]

… I’m back from Cincy, dad couldn’t have the hip replacement today because his lungs wont take the surgery.
So my brother and I decided to make some decisions.
Decisions that take things in a particular direction, given my dad’s DNR and order not to intubate.  We told the staff to take off the cpap machine.  To […]

It’s 10.05 p.m., and later has come more quickly than I imagined.
My dad broke his hip in a fall today, surgery is set for 11.30 tomorrow morning.  Any surgery is dangerous, but for an 80 year old man with congenital heart failure and lungs that don’t get nearly enough oxygen to it on a regular […]

…. apologies for missing yesterday’s “A Bad Mingled Wryness” (an anagram for Rambling Wednesdays), but I was running from airport to airport to get back home to indy…
My Thursday edition of my Wednesday blog is done.  But I just don’t feel like being cute today.  No desire to be sarcastic.  Snarky is even off limits.
I […]

I think it’s Tuesday.  Traveling from East to West (or Midwest to West) means that I am awake East Coast Time (normally at 6 a.m.), however the tricky time zone creators play their cosmic joke on me, waking me up at 3 in Monterey, California and 4 here in Salt Lake City.  So, here I […]

Sue Shellenbarger writes the Work & Family articles for the Wall Street Journal.  I like Sue, not only because she writes on issues that are important to me personally, but more importantly, ’cause she once used my name and research in an article she wrote.
My parents were both very proud, and my brother was really […]

The Book Is Done and is currently being reviewed by “outsiders”… WHEE!
No more writing for a little while, but Doc Hundley, Jacobs and I are scheduled to update our first book Workforce Engagement; Strategies to attract, motivate, and retain talent in early 2009.
Anyways…
Some readers have written in and asked about the name A Bad Mingled […]

Whew.
Just finished up my third book tentatively titled Narrowing the Focus while Expanding the Scope.  It’s about Rewards and Recognition, sort of a “how-to” book for my publisher WorldatWork (yea, the want me to squish the name together as I just wrote it)…
Although I wasn’t specifically asked to include content on how to measure the […]