Is Employee Loyalty a Thing of the Past? Have you ever heard of Hachiko, the golden-brown Akita dog? Hachiko was a familiar sight at the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, Japan. Each evening he would go down to the station to greet his owner Mr. Ueno on his return from work at the local university….
3 Ways You Can Prepare for An Effective Problem-Solving Meeting I relax by baking chocolate chip cookies A couple of weeks ago, I got home after a pressure packed day, and decided to bake. The recipe called for baking soda, and since I didn’t have any in the house, I substituted baking powder. The first…
On Saturday I astonished my wife She comes from a very practical family. Her dad is a handy-man savant, one of her brothers is general contractor, another owns a commercial window installation business. In practical matters, men in her family are skilled, creative and proactive. I’m the exact opposite. Thankfully, my wife is a patient…
3 Ways to Lock-In the Long-Term Commitment of Talented People Jamie Siminoff, the inventor of the Ring Video Doorbell, is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods. A recent study done with the Los Angeles Police Department found that after installing Ring in 10% of the houses in an area, crime was reduced by…
I’ve been sick. I contracted a virus that basically knocked me out for the past month. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t the end of the world, but it was inconvenient, frustrating, and humbling. I’ve began to feel myself this past week, and I thought about three things I learned when I was…
Labor is really tight in construction so you don’t want to lose key employees. But when you do, my client found there were actually three benefits of losing that person: With that person gone, it brought my client a little bit closer to the field, finding out things that were going on that were beneficial…