Work on Your Weaknesses...Sometimes.

What if every single product you produced was made from a single machine. Would you take care of that machine, making sure it ran well?

It was the best of jobs… it was the worst of jobs… I want to share with you a true story about two supervisors and their leadership styles.

Performance appraisal methods can make or break the value of employee evaluations, yet many managers haven't been empowered to consider whether their appraisal methods are effective or not.

Whether you run an engineering firm, an architecture firm, an optometrist practice, a law firm or an accounting firm, you are likely highly trained in your profession. You have years of rigorous [...]

I've done it and it was very difficult. Over 90% fail for a variety of reasons. I learned some valuable lessons and here are a few.

When I spoke at a Human Resources conference, I asked a room full of HR professionals if they do performance appraisals in their companies. Just about everyone in the room raised their hands. One [...]

There are many performance appraisal methods out there, but let’s face it: few of them work. How do you have a frank and open conversation with employees when they know there is bag of money on the [...]

My first office at 3M was in the engineering center in St. Paul, MN. The engineering center was probably designed by an engineer and it showed. It was eight floors of vast cubicle farms with offices [...]

A toxic employee is someone who is working against their employer. This occurs when the employee begins to believe they are right and the employer is wrong. The truth: it doesn’t matter who is right [...]

I have an observation. Rarely do most of us disagree on the endgame or final destination, but there are a lot of different approaches to getting there. For example, all of us can probably agree that [...]