There is a story that has been told many times about the job attitudes of three bricklayers: When asked, “What are you doing?” the first bricklayer replied, “Laying brick.”  The second answered, “Making $10.50 an hour.”  And the third said, “Me? Why, I’m building the world’s greatest cathedral.” After…

I worked hard last week. How about you? Did you make sure you took care of everything that you were supposed to?  Followed through on all of your commitments? Finish the report you were going to do, returned the phone calls you were supposed to return? I have some people…

An interesting thing happened at work this week. My co-workers showed vulnerability. We were in a department meeting when it happened – someone got REAL. They expressed how they were really feeling about the direction our company seemed to be going, and felt that we were no longer aligned with…

When do you find yourself being most productive?  Is it when you are working on something on and off – a little bit here or there?  When you are in the middle of something and you have to answer the phone? This doesn’t work well for me at all.  And…