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Why Active Learners Own Our Future
We used to derive our security from a job. Today we find our security from growth. If that’s true (and it is), consider what a vast change in consciousness and outlook this represents for most of us. In my upcoming book The Workplace Engagement Solution (Career Press), I have […]
Inspired Work’s First Annual Disengaged Employee of the Year Award
We were going to wait until the end of the year to take nominations for “Disengaged Employee of the Year Award” but after careful consideration, Sean has set a bar so thoroughly in the winning position, we are throwing in our chips today. Please, please, please, this is not a […]
What is an Engagement CEO?
According to Gallup, only 13% of the world’s workers are engaged. How are we getting anything done? Well, we are doing it in a trance. Many of my readers were taken with the shocking levels of disengagement behind the debacle at United Airlines. But, the only thing I have learned […]
The Shocking Back Story Behind Yesterday’s Debacle at United Airlines
Yesterday’s shocking customer service blunder at United Airlines was yet another example of an employee culture so disengaged that we end up dragging a semi-conscious passenger in front of the world. The UA “culture” treats its own employees so badly that incidents like this happen routinely. This morning, I spoke […]
Silicon Valley’s Bizarre, Shocking, Exciting, & Scary New Conversation
Last year, Elon Musk was speaking at Recodes annual Code Conference in Palos Verdes, California. He said something that captured my imagination to such a bizarre degree that I think about his statement on a daily basis. He said, “We could already be playthings in a simulated-reality world run by […]
Burn All the Boats – One Working Parent’s Journey to Freedom
Recently, I have been sharing stories about sole breadwinners. They are masters of responsibility for many of America’s families. But, they often set aside their own career development in the fear that one wrong move will spell failure in meeting the needs of their children’s day-to-day well-being as well as […]
The One Question I Will Never Ask Again
The wind has blasted away all sleep. Trees are bending towards the sea and the coyotes have disappeared, possibly hiding or simply taking advantage of the noise that awakens me. This particular wind has gathered energy forcing itself on Sunset Boulevard gathering speed as it races, growing in rage towards […]
A Unique Way to Get Your Most Out of Every Day
Many agree that our most precious resource is time. How much time gets used up in the frenzy of today’s workplace? In Inspired Work’s leadership and engagement programs, we give our participants a customized series of questions to answer at the beginning of every day. It takes less than […]
HER – How ten minutes transformed one family’s life
I’m waiting to board the plane back to LA and working on our new book that will help families prepare their children for the future of work. In a world where the average college graduate will change careers four to six times, everything in how we engage with our children […]
Are We Preparing Our Children for the Future?
I was giving a keynote speech entitled, “The Art of Change.” Throughout the days of our programs, our participants produce transformational professional change. They break free of the survival and predictability standard that has entrapped so much of our culture. They define and do the work that matters to them […]