Think of every single member of your team. Visualize their performance and contributions this past quarter. I bet there is one person you're not thinking of that you need to manage better.

It's your boss, OK. Let's just get right to it.

You spend so much time focusing on...

There is this vicious cycle that I see in organizations when it comes to employee growth and development. 

• Employees want more of it. According to this Linkedin report, employees would stay longer with a company if the company invested in learning and development. 

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I have a friend who is a physician. When I bring up the mantra of "fail fast and fail often", her response is that the patient would be dead - fast - if she failed. 

And then she rolls her eyes at me for even mentioning said mantra. 

Whether or not we deal with life or d...

"We need to fire her."

My client was at the end of his rope with this employee. He went on to say that for the last three months, this employee hadn't been performing. She was unorganized and losing simple details in projects. Even worse, she had lost faith in the rest...

As the summer has progressed this year, my five-year old has started to love the idea of helping me out with errands and chores. He's thrown mulch in the yard. He helps put gas in the car and clean the windshields. He makes himself breakfast - as long as waffles are on...

I feel for mid-level managers. They're like my middle child in our family. 

He gets forgotten about. The older sibling will go through a major life event for the first time surrounded by parents and grandparents celebrating and taking pictures. Once he does the activit...

My wife and I both work. Thus, we have stuff and things we're responsible for at work and at home.  

And we have three kids. They all go to school. And then they have friends. And activities. So they have their own stuff and things they need to do.  

Not that w...