Beef jerky anyone?
Yes this was my downfall. About 6 years ago, at the beginning of my tenure as CEO of Exodus Moving & Storage, during the holiday season our moving company was having some serious cash flow concerns (winter is typically the slow season for moving companies.) We didn’t have enough cash to give bonuses, but we wanted to do Read more >
No donuts!!?? You say.
Yes, I said no donuts. We all know that donuts are bad for us – high fat, high sugar – you get the idea. What does it tell your employees when you offer them something you know is bad for them? It’s like feeding your dog that you love chocolate. Don’t feed your people poison.
They may roll their eyes when you break Read more >
I was amazed. It was a couple of years ago. And there I was in front of 70 of my employees – my moving crew – in a company meeting and I asked them, what are all the different perks you receive working here?
They named 3.
There were 10.
And when I said well what about this one, and what about that one, they said – OOOOOO yeah. Granted so Read more >
You try to do no wrong. In fact, you try to do “the right thing.”
And yet there are those times in all of our lives where we simply screw up. In our personal lives, we know what to do – we apologize. And yet, in the workplace – in the world of work – we try to hide our failures, our messes, cover them up.
Why?
With employees, as the man Read more >
Remember the old adage about assuming….
And yet we do it SO often. Especially when things aren’t going ideal or are getting downright ugly. We assume we know why John or Carla did what they did and how they did it. Instead of getting down and dirty and learning the core reason why things are going awry it is easier and quicker for Read more >
