by Dr. Z | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Chaos emerges when a traffic light breaks down at a busy intersection. We resort to our primitive instincts and survival of the quickest emerges. People speed up to the intersection, give a quick scan, and incrementally creep their car into the intersection. White...
by Dr. Z | Mar 25, 2014 | Leadership, Motivation, Organizational Development, Uncategorized
Few people like giving others negative feedback. Those who do like this are typically very bad at it. Whether we like it or not, feedback is an important part of any successful organization. So it is in the best interests of individual managers and the organization as...
by Dr. Z | Jan 21, 2014 | Incentive, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Organizational Development, Uncategorized
How can you motivate your employees to do the best work in the least amount of time when you’re working from a limited budget? This is a question that every manager has pondered since the emergence of the first formal organization. But there’s good news on...
by Dr. Z | Jan 15, 2014 | Inspiration, Motivation, Uncategorized
As we begin the New Year, most of us have set personal and professional goals to achieve over the next 12 months. Here are a few thoughts as you begin your quest to self-fulfillment: Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed. The KSA...
by Dr. Z | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
“These headphone-wearing, disrespectful, entitled idiots…well not idiots, but kids, they’re just kids.” This was how an upper level manager at a national construction company described his Generation Y coworkers. Generation Y, or the Millennials, are born between the...
by Dr. Z | Jan 4, 2012 | Learning, Thinking and Speaking, Uncategorized, Understanding Conflict
Do you ever find a book so intriguing that you cannot stop reading it and talking about the material? Everything about the characters feels like a mystery to be unraveled and you find yourself enamored with their personal characteristics, accomplishments, and flaws....
