Archive for November, 2007

ZENgagement: To love or be loved »

LOVE: A Pathway to employee engagement?

What might it be like to awaken each day into an increasing sense that being loving is even more important than being loved? ~ Stephen Levine
Photo Credit: i heart u by http://flickr.com/photos/littlegoldwoman/860925091/

Leadership Video: 2 Sources for Strengths »

This video outlines 2 sources to determine your signature strengths.
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Employee Engagment Chronicle #5 »

David Zinger’s Employee Engagement Chronicle is your primary source for current news, views, reviews, and research on employee engagement. Each entry includes a link to an article or post with a short verbatim tidbit from the article. If you are intrigued, click on the author or source name at the start of each summary to study the full […]

Leadership Strength#5 - Empathy (MMP #35) »

Employee Engagement - Monday Morning Percolator #35

This is part 5 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development through the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Click here to read the first article in the series.
Here is the schedule outlining my strength focus:

Maximizer (Week 1)
Strategic (Week 2)
Positivity (Week 3)
Ideation (Week 4)
Empathy (Week 5)

ZENgagement: What is new is old (Self-Reliance) »

Is employee engagement really a new topic?

 Here is a wonderful snippet of poetry from Ralph Waldo Emerson written in 1841, 166 years ago, on self-reliance:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between […]

The 10 Simple Laws of Employee Engagement »

Can you make employee engagement simple?

John Maeda. a professor in MIT’s Meida Lab, is the master of simplicity. He wrote a compelling book, The Laws of Simplicity.
In this article I apply Maeda’s 10 laws and 3 keys of simplicity to employee engagement.
TEN LAWS
1. REDUCE. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. What can […]

ZENgagement: Are you sliding »

What’s most important?

Elizabeth Hamilton has written an intriguing short book, Untrain Your Parrot.
I have read the question she asked in Chapter 1 before about what’s most important. Yet, I appreciated her phrasing and broader perspective:
If you died today, would your obituary reflect your professed values? Or entropy: “She let the important things slide, and then […]

Leadership Strength#4 - Ideation (MMP #34) »

Employee Engagement Monday Morning Percolator #34

This is part 4 of a 5 part series on leadership strength development through the application of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Click here to read the first article in the series.
Here is the schedule outlining my strength focus:

Maximizer (Week 1)
Strategic (Week 2)
Positivity (Week 3)
Ideation (Week 4)
Empathy (Week 5)

Here is a quick review of the […]

ZENgagement is always about now »

NOW

It’s a good day when we don’t need to be doing anything else than what we’re doing, when we don’t need to be anywhere else than where we are. On this day, our life is fine as it is and we are free from having to improve and instead, just engage it as it is.  […]