Monthly Archives: March 2007

In the last post I outlined how important connections were to all of us, yet how busy leaders are with all the demands and tasks they experience everyday. Actions need to be small yet significant. Actions are strengthened when we … Continue reading →

  Percolator Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/sti/ You might have wondered why this series is called the Monday Morning Percolator. Monday is the day most of us start our work week. Morning is when we wake up and coffee is often used to transition … Continue reading →

Do you flow into engaged activity? Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has researched flow and outlined how we can achieve flow at work. I have appreciated his ideas on flow for years and I believe flow can be seen as a close … Continue reading →

Strength resides in relationship – leadership is moving from me to WE. The Brotherhood of the Rope asks us to connect past me to we. The rope connects us, ties us together, helps us summit, and come to the assistance … Continue reading →

As stated in a recent post, the number 1 driver of employee engagement is the relationship with our direct leader. Sometimes we are fortunate and have a great boss who: provides numerous high quality interactions, demonstrates how we are part … Continue reading →

Wake up! Engaging our jobs intelligently and without resistance does not require that we redefine our entire approach to our livelihood. We can engage our jobs sanely and openly without giving up on success or disregarding our feelings or ambitions. … Continue reading →

The conference board published a report on “Employee Engagement: A Review of Current Research and its Implications.” Patricia Soldati summarized some of the work in a recent post at management-issues. Looking at 12 different studies the report outlined 26 key drivers … Continue reading →

Humantech Inc. has introduced the “30-inch view of business.” As opposed to leaders taking the 30,000-foot view of business Humantech suggests leaders get close to their people and environment. “The lesson is that people matter and they’re everywhere,” Keith R. … Continue reading →

This Monday’s percolator is a slow percolator. Slow Leadership is a wonderful blog with the tag-line:  Real leadership isn’t an instant activity any more than a healthy diet is a hamburger, fries, and a large soda.   It is good to see … Continue reading →

I recently read a post by Chris Bailey: If leadership were a punctuation mark, what would it be? I quickly wrote a comment to Chris as I thought the post was very effective in thinking about leadership and distilling the … Continue reading →