by Mark Edge | Jul 25, 2024 | Employee Productivity
Last December, as you recall, Maureen Flavin died. Oh, you don’t recall Maureen Flavin? Maureen Flavin was the postal clerk whose work was so consequential in World War II that you might say she was a critical reason for the Allied success on D-Day. Let me explain. In...
by Mark Edge | Jul 18, 2024 | Employee Productivity
I have a friend who is a retired athletic coach. She coached girls’ basketball for 40 years in Texas. She told me recently about the best piece of advice she ever received. She was taking a job in a small town in South Texas, and before she began, one of the boys’...
by Mark Edge | Jul 5, 2024 | Employee Productivity
I was thirteen years old, and it was May during my seventh-grade year. Our coach had gathered all of us seventh-grade boys in the high school field house, where the school’s only weight-lifting machine was located. It was hot as blazes. There was no air...
by Mark Edge | Jun 27, 2024 | Employee Productivity
My son has a good singing voice and is musically talented. Still, I’ve never pushed him to get into the singing business. It is a tough field that can be very hard and discouraging. A case in point is a kid named Aaron. He was twenty and had been singing in...
by Mark Edge | Jun 21, 2024 | Employee Productivity
Have you ever heard of the word chutzpah? It is an old Yiddish word that describes someone who is audacious or has a lot of gall. Perhaps the best way to define it is through an old Yiddish joke. There was a man who murdered both of his parents. At his trial, he...
by Mark Edge | May 23, 2024 | Employee Productivity
I spoke at an event recently, and my wife, Judy, was with me. It went so well that after I finished, somebody who was supposed to talk about another subject instead spoke about how much my speech helped him. I felt very gratified, but something kept bugging me. I was...
