How does one motivate an employee to give that extra effort when trying to solve a problem before coming into the managers office to ask for help?  Numerous books have been written on the subject of motivation by people far smarter than me.  The normal take-away is that one person can not motivate another one.  […]

Dear newspaper and magazine editors: During your death spiral into obscurity, if you must separate articles – starting the article and then giving us a ‘go to page XY’, – please at the end of the article give us a ‘go back to page AB’ to continue reading. Thanks, al

I’m writing this from the quiet confines of my old college house in West Virginia.  Thanks to not needing to be in the Emerald city next week, I moved my travel plans and came into WV early. Consulting, for all of its ills, does provide a lot of flexibility when it comes to work location.  […]