Paper Airplanes

Paper Airplanes

On the way to our sixth-grade son’s middle-school awards ceremony, we celebrated by going out to dinner. About half-way through the meal, he said, “I don’t know what the big deal is. All they give you is a piece of paper.” We suspected he...
Does Your Spot Award Lack Momentum?

Does Your Spot Award Lack Momentum?

Have you ever gotten mail or phone call telling you that you’ve won a cruise or timeshare?  Likely you have.  And likely you hung up the call or discarded the letter in the trash as ‘junk-mail’ without giving it a second thought. Then again – if you had entered into...
Thanksgiving Overload!

Thanksgiving Overload!

Yesterday, I was meeting with a senior manager – we’ll call him Saresh – and he was telling me about a problem he had with one of his employees, Chris.  Saresh told me that Chris hadn’t been sharing information with the team. Saresh also told me...