Michael Carter and I were chatting this morning about conversations in the workplace and we came around to the topic of performance review as a series of conversations. This is how I prefer to conduct performance reviews. For managers and supervisors Pre-interview questionnaires? Bin them. Competency models? Bin them too. Forms to fill out during [...]
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The Next Trillion Paul Zane Pilzer. VideoPlus 2001, Paperback, 197 pages, $4.49 There are some interesting ideas in The Next Trillion by Paul Zane Pilzer. I read the Australia and New Zealand Tour Edition which is an abridged version. Let me declare that I own a business which sells products in the wellness industry but [...]
Following in the footsteps of Michael Bungay Stanier I have signed and affirmed the Charter for Compassion, a global effort to raise the awareness of compassion in the world. This simple act had me thinking about compassion over the weekend and how it comes about. There are people in the world who are naturally compassionate. [...]
I came across this quote in Presence and was powerfully struck by its relevance to a conversation I had had a few days before. Nick Hanauer, a past board member of Amazon.com is quoted as saying… “When asked about the role of intention in his entrepreneurial experience, Hanauer said, “There’s no doubt about the value [...]
Courtesy of David Gurteen comes this quote from Henry David Thoreau. Things do not change; we change. As we change the observer that we are, new worlds open to us.
