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Employee Engagement: Learning From Game Play and Design »

Are you game for employee engagement?
The future of engagement will be so much less about punching a clock and so much more about logging on or checking in, enjoying play and work, getting good at something with great feedback to keep us moving to the next level, finding easy ways to make connections, to spend [...]

Engaging Short Snappers: Lessons From Seth Godin and Tom Peters »

I encourage you to view some of the 1 to 3 minute video clips with Seth Godin and Tom Peters talking about a number of issues related to business, leadership, and engagement.
The Open Forum hosted Tom and Seth voicing their views on inside the entrepreneurial mind. Many of their comments and applications and implications for [...]

Slide Into Changing Poverty: Your Two Cents »

View this 8 slide presentation on what you can do about poverty this week with just two cents a word!
2 Cent Campaign
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Good Labor and Caring: Thanks Dan »

One of the most wonderful things about having a blog or interactive website is the ability of others to add to your thinking through their comments.
I received a wonderful comment from Dan Oestreich about The Great Wall of Saskatchewan article and 10 slide story about the great wall. I thought it was so well-written that [...]

Flow or Go: Happy @ Work? »

When you look into the mirror of yourself and work, what do you see?

Here is a snippet to think about from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
On the job people feel skillful and challenged, and therefore feel more happy, strong, creative and satisfied. In their free time people feel that there is generally [...]

Your Work Legacy and the Great Wall of Saskatchewan »

Just outside of Smiley Saskatchewan is the Great Wall of Saskatchewan.

This is a project of love, legacy, and tenacious obsession on the part of Albert Johnson who spent 30 years building the wall.  Check out this short 10 slide story I created about Albert Johnson’s wall.
To view the 10 slides:click here.
You might not spend 30 [...]

Change Poverty Oct 26 to Nov 1 »

If you are a blogger, Change Poverty. Click the penny below.

Zengagement and Results »

Foster employee engagement - see results.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~ Albert Einstein
Photo Credit: Fueling the Fire by http://www.flickr.com/photos/akahodag/1419156372/

Engage Beyond Ourselves: Calling All Bloggers »

Bloggers, will you give your two cents worth?
Join a small and significant campaign to make new cents about poverty between October 26 and November 1.
I invite all bloggers to join a campaign to pledge two cents a word for every word they write on their blog between October 26 and November 1.
Click on the [...]

Make Love Not War: Stop the War for Talent Now! »

A personal rant against the War for Talent.
I have always been troubled by the so called “war for talent.” Now, I am beyond troubled, I am angry with the use of this metaphor for those of us who offer our best in organizations.
For example a Fast Company article on the war for talent stated:
According to [...]