December 17, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.” Elbert Hubbard How many of you are looking forward to a break during this holiday season to unwind, spend time with family and friends and “energize your batteries” again before the New Year begins? Most of us will actually slow […]
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December 10, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert Schweitzer It’s no surprise that workers aren’t very satisfied with work stress and pay/benefits–and stress seems to make us sick, fat and depressed according to recent research. Today, talent at […]
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December 3, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.” Wilson Mizener Are you a “night owl” with your greatest alertness, ability to concentrate and performance late at night or a “lark” that has a prefeference for getting up early to accomplish as much as possible? Does it seem to be associated […]
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November 26, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.†Peter Drucker Every year since 1983, Bain and Company has surveyed executives in various industries to weight and rate the level of satisfaction and use of over 100 popular tools (e.g., benchmarking, six sigma, corporate blogs). With over 8,504 […]
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November 6, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Will Never Hurt me” Unknown If performance feedback was a drug, many of us could be easily sued for malpractice. One of the most cited research studies on performance feedback is based on meta-analysis by Kluger and DeNisi who reviewed over 3,000 studies (607 effect sizes, […]
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October 30, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.†Aldous Huxley I have a habit of collecting some “facts” that I read in both academic non-academic journals. I try sometimes to go back to […]
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October 23, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“I’m not asleep… but that doesn’t mean I’m awake” Author Unknown We all seem to be working longer and harder with health, sleep, and mood being affected. Research by Sylvia Ann-Hewlett and Carolyn Luce shows that 62% of high-earning individuals work more than 50 hours per week, 35% work more than 60 hours a week […]
October 21, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“Forget about style; worry about results.” Bobby Orr We are all working longer and doing more….any more results to show for it? For example, Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano of the National Bureau of Economic Research found that college educated employees working 50-hour weeks rose from 22.2% to 30.5% between 1980 and 2001. Sylvia Ann […]
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