Costco’s Refreshing Reply to Unionization
When a workforce organizes, it can feel like a direct attack on leadership. Because of this, a typical response by leaders is something along the lines of unionization is futile, or we’ll never give up...
View ArticleRTO Needs to be a Magnet Not a Mandate
Plain and simple, leaders at Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) get it. After filing for bankruptcy during the COVID pandemic, the company became remote-first, allowing employees to work from anywhere, with no...
View ArticleWill Your Employees Cry Like Jason Kelce When They Retire?
Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce recently announced his retirement from the U.S. National Football League (NFL). The future Hall of Famer won the Super Bowl in 2018 and spent all 13 of his years...
View ArticleBoeing’s Culture is Behind Its Demise
Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun, and many of the firm’s C-suite executives, recently announced they are stepping down. The move comes as Boeing grapples with a huge crisis – planes...
View ArticleEmployee Engagement Drops to Its Lowest Level in a Decade
Gallup recently reported that employee engagement in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade. The data also shows that employees feel increasingly detached from their employers,...
View ArticleDisengaged Employees Cost Organizations $8.8 Trillion Globally
Gallup just reported that worldwide, the cost of poor management and lost productivity from disengaged employees is $8.8 trillion or 9% of global GDP. For the past decade, I’ve been saying that how...
View ArticleWant to Speed Up? Then Slow Down
Businessman Kevin O’Leary is probably best known for his starring role on the television program Shark Tank, where gung-ho entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors. So, it may...
View ArticleAre You Really Willing to do What it Takes to be a Simone Biles?
The colorful 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris just ended. As predicted in the world of sports, we saw both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. But what we saw most was thousands of elite...
View ArticleHow a Lack of Trust Stranded Astronauts in Space and Cripples Organizations
NASA announced that two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) in the troubled Starliner space capsule may have to be rescued by Elon Musk’s upstart rival SpaceX....
View ArticleHow to Take Employee Recognition to the Next Level
According to a new report from Canva, a popular graphic design application: 56% of U.S. employees feel appreciated or very appreciated at work, 44% feel unacknowledged, and 75% of workers wish they...
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