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The Problem With Business & Metaphysics
Years ago, we were leading an Inspired Work Program for a large group of spiritual coaches. At the first break, members of my team came over and told me how lovely the the participants were. I responded, “By the time we have lunch, many of them will be homicidal.” This […]
The Five-Minute Engagement Booster
“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the […]
Is Information Overload Making Us Nuts? It has for thousands of years.
People don’t run out of dreams – people just run out of time. Glenn Frey – The Eagles In 1970, my hero, the brilliant futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that by the turn of the century, we would be in continual information overload. This has come to pass. Today, we […]
The Great Political Failure of Work
There has never been a more important time for the workers of America to discover the vast opportunities to make new and better livings. Today, it is easier to start a business, find the “dream job,” and to do work that is far more interesting. In fact, for many, doing […]
The One Truth That I Know For Sure
For years, Oprah Winfrey featured an annual episode where leaders would share the one thing they knew with certainty. Here’s mine: Every single one of us comes into this world with a unique purpose. Until we find that purpose, to varying degrees, we suffer. Our unique role in […]
No Matter Where You Are, This Will Make Your Day Better
We all have them. Life is sailing along and then we encounter a real clunker of a day. There is a solution that doesn’t require leaving one’s computer. As the owner of Inspired Work, the recession introduced quite a few difficult days. I began evaluating ways to rebuild […]
The Five Steps All of Us Use to Kill Off Change
Business media sends out articles every single day about the acceleration of change, about changing technology impacting each and every one of us. But, little is said about how to change ourselves. Learning how to change ourselves is one of the single most valuable of life experiences. For many, […]
Einstein Draws a Circle and I Don’t Know My Ass From a Hole in the Ground
This morning, someone close to me said the two most valuable phrases a person can say are, “I need help” and “I don’t know.” When I started leading The Inspired Work Program in 1990, I was thrown into an existential crisis. Growing up with a white-male-pissed-off God had given […]
Fear of Success is a Big Fat Ugly Lie
Early this morning, I woke up and thought of how frightening it would be to pay all my bills, buy a spectacular beach home in the Malibu Colony and purchase a brand-new Azimut 77S foot yacht with a crew of two. My mind wandered towards getting up and visiting Amazon […]
The Democratic Solution to Engagement
One of the fundamental reasons so many well-intentioned employee engagement initiatives fail is rooted in how we treat the organizational elite. The majority of learning and development dollars are directed towards executive leadership and high potentials, while everyone else gets little or nothing. Rinse & Repeat. True, measurable and sustainable […]