by Mark Edge | Dec 13, 2023 | Employee Productivity
December is the time when people traditionally contemplate making New Year’s Resolutions. I have some thoughts on that. First, don’t make New Year’s Resolutions; make New Year’s Goals. I’m being a stickler here, but resolutions have become a topic associated with...
by Mark Edge | Dec 7, 2023 | Employee Productivity
Imagine this. Over time, you have grown functionally deaf. Now what? You dream of inventing a machine that can record and reproduce sound. Now what? You dream of creating a machine that can record and play music. Now what? You dream of taking photographs, moving them...
by Mark Edge | Nov 16, 2023 | Employee Productivity
I am a big fan of the new book Stay Sane in an Insane World by Greg Harden. If you haven’t heard about it, it is written by a sports psychologist who worked for several decades at the University of Michigan. Among the athletes Harden impacted were Heisman Trophy...
by Mark Edge | Nov 3, 2023 | Employee Productivity
In 2009, C. William Fisher wrote a book titled Don’t Park Here. In it, he includes the story of driving along the road with his then 4-year-old son sitting with him in the front seat. Fisher asked his son, “Byron, what do you want to be when you grow up…?”...
by Mark Edge | Oct 26, 2023 | Employee Productivity
Over thirty years ago, I first read about a study that analyzed how the significant sections of a symphony orchestra viewed each other. They regarded: those in percussion as uncaring, dim-witted, and exuberant those playing stringed instruments as egotistical and...
by Mark Edge | Oct 12, 2023 | Employee Productivity
Joseph Pulitzer grew so influential in the field of journalism that they named their prizes after him. (It’s a big deal to win the Pulitzer Prize.) Things did not start out so well for Pulitzer. He fought in the Civil War and returned to his home in New York...
