INSPIRED WORK ARTICLES
Why Do Trader Joe’s Cashiers Stay for 19 Years?
Employee engagement issues tend to be on full display in the grocery industry. Ralph’s has a superstore within 50 yards of our front door. The employees are hairy, sweaty, and the men are worse. Kidding aside, the place is so disengaged that customers feel like intrusions. Most of the
How Can We Have So Much and Be So Soft?
I have always been able to have conversations with friends and family members with differing political views by connecting with the morals, values, and ethics that live above politics. You know, the ones that all of us used to remember as the ideals behind our American spirit. We treasured characteristics
How’s Your Vision?
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” Chuck Chamberlain – A New Set of Glasses In the event that
Just When is it Time to Let Go of the Old World of Work?
Many of us have had jobs that were richly rewarding only to turn sour from change beyond our control? It is impossible to count the number of conversations where someone tells me they wished they saw the writing on the wall more quickly. It’s just basic human nature
Four Days That Will Build Extraordinary Gratitude in Your Life
Thanksgiving is indeed my favorite holiday. Even the title captures the spirit of giving and growing and experiencing new versions of ourselves. There is a strange myth about giving. Unless our giving is “selfless” than it isn’t enough. Nothing could be further from the truth. One of my activities
The Speech John F Kennedy Was About to Give on the Day He Died
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy I grew up in a little dirtbag town with adoptive violent and evangelical parents. In that environment, I remember watching JFK get elected