Posts tagged: performance

Unfairness + Encouraging Minimalist Performance: A Surefire Way to Lose Your Employees

Leaving the unexpectedly late from work a few nights ago, I thought back to an experience early in my working life. I had been taught all through my childhood to work as hard as possible, and that working late is to be expected. I was taught to believe that good things happen when you push [...]

Friday November 19th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

Male-Dominated Fields Are The Same In Every Social Strata

If you’ve read the book Kitchen Confidential or ever worked in a commercial kitchen, you know that this is a male-dominated environment. You also know that this is also a far cry from a politically-correct environment and is sure to make bleeding-heart liberals’ ears bleed. Here’s an example: “A rare exception because you don’t find [...]

Wednesday November 17th, 2010 in , , | Comments Off

You Decide Whether To Feel Fear or To Experience Excitement

The mind is a wonderful thing. It is through the conscious mind that the same experience for one person may be gut-wrenchingly fearsome, and for another, an absolutely exhilarating thrill. Physiologically-speaking, arousal is arousal is arousal. Your body is primed for action when aroused. The adrenaline that courses through your body when you’re scared is [...]

Tuesday October 12th, 2010 in , , , | 3 Comments »

If You’re Gonna Read, Read Something Productive

One of the best advice I ever got was something my aunt told me back when I was still a university student. I have always been an avid reader, but at that point I had gotten to reading a lot of fiction and not much else. I was on a trip to visit a number [...]

Wednesday August 25th, 2010 in , , , , | 5 Comments »

The 8 Keys to Success – and Staying Successful

What are the keys to success? To many people, that’s like asking what the winning numbers are to the big lottery jackpot. There is the belief that there just might be a simple key to success, like turning the key to starting a car. Well, the recipe for success is indeed conceptually simple, but it’s [...]

Monday August 23rd, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off