Stop Stress Related Bankruptcy 300 Billion Dollars a Year! According to the American Psychological Association that is what stress is costing businesses in the USA Be it loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover or increased medical costs, stress is clearly expensive to organizations. What’s more, stress is costly to individuals. This same study by the APA shows that 80% of Americans…
On Friday I facilitated a program entitled, “Generations and Beyond,” for Out and Equal, which explored the intersections of generations, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity. During my presentation I talked about the fact that a lot of what we hear about each generation are stereotypes and that there are people in their 70’s who are techies and that there are…
Meg Whitman wants to run for governor, and fix CA but she has neglected to vote many time according to Channel 2 News.I don’t understand how someone who has chosen not to participate in the electoral process wants to run the state. Perhaps we wouldn’t be in such a mess if more people had chosen to get involved instead. She…
Aren’t you sick of “smiley face people,” talking about how great this economy is, telling you that if you are stressed you are just being a “downer.” I call them “smiley face people” because no matter what you say, they really aren’t listening, they’re just mouthing platitudes with a perpetual blank beatific smile on their face. Our economy is in…
Be Careful What You Say, This Conversation is Being Taped From Craptastic to Comcastic Comcast was working on my street last week while I was working against the clock to finish a proposal for a client by day’s end. Right after Comcast packed up and drove away I lost my internet connection, phone service and cable. Comcast wasn’t able to…
I was disappointed at first when I heard that Rick Warren was going to speak. I was more than offended at being compared to a pedophile or someone who practices incest. But then Mellissa Etheridge reached out to him. They got together and he invited her to his church and she invited him to her house for dinner with her…
n my 20 years of consulting I have found 7 key ways in which managers can help direct reports work more effectively with less. Here are three actions they can take:• Decide which tasks are most important and the order in which they need to be done. Give the employee permission to reschedule other work that is not as important….
The optimism is contagious today. I stood with 4,000 other people watching Obama get sworn in. Restaurants, community centers, and banks in the Sf Bay Area set up large screens so that people could watch with other people. The atmosphere was electric; people clapping, crying and hugging each other. I drove by a restaurant that had opened all the window…
Two new restaurants opened in my neighborhood a few months ago. Both are on corners that have housed several failed restaurants. Time again, we saw new restaurants open only to close within the first year.One of the new restaurants is always busy, no matter when I walk by. The other restaurant very rarely has anyone in it.Why is one doing…
Is it time to celebrate the end of racism? That’s what so many people are proclaiming on television and radio. I’m glad Obama was elected It definitely reflects a change in this country and the willingness of voters to vote for the person they think is the most qualified. Many African American voters grew up sitting in the back of…
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