by Mark Edge | Mar 31, 2021 | Employee Retention
Work and productivity are essential if a person wishes to find meaning in life. On the other hand, an individual slowly dies spiritually if his or her work has no meaning. Here is an anecdote to illustrate what I mean. I have a friend who was a teenager in the 1970s....
by Mark Edge | Mar 30, 2021 | Employee Retention
Quick quiz: in what periodical did the following quote appear? “Get used to it. Spirituality is creeping into the office…. And companies are turning inward in search of a ‘soul’ as a way to foster creativity and to motivate leaders.” Was it:...
by Mark Edge | Mar 29, 2021 | Employee Retention
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a young man in his twenties named Billy, who was the president of his family’s company. The company had approximately three hundred employees. Practically every day, Billy’s company had at least one employee quit. ...
by Mark Edge | Mar 25, 2021 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity
Robert D. Pace tells the story of the great concert violinist Nicolo Paganini. Born in the Italian city of Genoa, Pagainini expressed the wish before his death that his violin be donated to that home of his birth. This gift did have one condition–no one was ever...
by Mark Edge | Mar 24, 2021 | Emotional Health
Edwin Friedman was a family therapist and Jewish rabbi. He passionately argued that people too often allow themselves to become trapped by the negative emotional climate of others. To stretch the minds of his readers, Friedman challenged them to: Imagine being a Jew...
