Employee Motivation

Your Team's Brand

. I was giving a talk this week to an audience of CIOs and one of the topics we discussed…

17 years ago

Permission and Imagination

. If you want to advance in your career you have to give yourself permission to not KNOW everything and…

17 years ago

Are you smarter than me?

. I hope so. I have been continually amazed at how many managers are threatened by having really smart, capable…

17 years ago

Patty’s Top 11 Leadership Values

Recently, someone that used to work in my organization sent me this list. It is from 1999, when I took…

17 years ago

Naughty or Nice?

Many of you have raised the question – How come there are so many highly successful assholes? Well…(sigh),  clearly, being…

17 years ago

Does your Work-at-Home Policy Work?

You want to provide the flexibility for people to work at home because: It works. They like it.  It’s motivating.…

17 years ago

Retaining Top People in this Ugly Economy

As times get more and more scary, don’t expect your high performers to keep knowing the company wants them.  Even…

17 years ago

Who has the best ideas?

Many things set highly successful people apart, but the one I want to talk about here is where they get…

18 years ago

Are you present?

Getting your whole team in the same room for a meeting these days is rare. Conference calls have become a…

18 years ago