by Mark Edge | May 27, 2021 | Employee Productivity
In a few months, Jimmy Johnson will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He made his career not simply by being a shrewd evaluator of talent. He also was a master motivator. Miami beat writer Steve Hubbard offered a classic example of this from Johnson’s...
by Mark Edge | May 26, 2021 | Employee Productivity
Critical Race Theory has become a controversial topic impacting America’s workplace and schools. I am sharing two links to the same podcast from The New York Times. It features a very civilized debate between John McWhorter, a professor at Columbia University, and...
by Mark Edge | May 25, 2021 | Employee Productivity
An old joke goes like this: According to the Associated Press, two trucks loaded with a thousand copies of Webster’s Thesaurus collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied....
by Mark Edge | May 24, 2021 | Employee Productivity
A parable tells of a pig who ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. A crow told him, “You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die.” “Let it die,” said the pig. “Who cares as long as there...
by Mark Edge | May 20, 2021 | Employee Productivity
If you lose a house, you can replace it. If you lose money, you can replace it. If you lose possessions, you can replace them. If you lose time, you can never replace it. It is gone forever. For more on this subject, see Melanie Rudd, Rhia Catapano, and Jennifer...
