I am reminded far too often that you must be very careful how you incent people. You may not always get the outcome you want. Here is an example from a leadership program I attended almost 10 years ago.
You work for a company that sells “red marbles”. Unfortunately, the only supplier of marbles ships mixed […]

Roy over at Return to the Center had more than a short comment to the post “I don’t have a poor attention span ! I’m multitasking“. Roy’s comment was so good, I’ve promoted it to a guest blog entry …
The notion of multi-tasking is an interesting one to me.
It’s my experience, both personal and working […]

I both chuckled and agreed when I read the post on Lifehacker. It describes the typical "geek" and having trained themselves to multi-task and when confronted with a situation that is best suited to focusing on just one thing - meetings and conference calls come to mind - it is difficult if not impossible to […]

I was reviewing the link-backs to my bloc and found one to a site called “Loadn Consultancy”. I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what the heck that blog is. My best guess is it is an exercise in software programming and random phase concatenation. At first, I thought it was designed to […]

About 18 months ago, while contemplating a career “side step”, I proposed some ideas for “just in time education”. The premise is that, today, most people don’t have the time for formal all-day and multi-day training models and often need “just enough” to get started. Also, there is a lot of need for “point specific” […]