Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
Optics – whatever they might be – count. A lot.
Just ask Big Bird.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced that he’d stop funding PBS – effectively sacking Big Bird and the Sesame Street crew that generations of kids and their parents have grown to love – as one of the first steps to lower the multi-trillion Federal debt. It was a rare misstep in a sterling first debate performance against President Obama in Denver.… Read the rest
The word from a recent study is that people who make things miserable for everyone else at work get paid the most.
So if mean people make more than everyone else, is it better – in this season of Christmas – to be naughty or nice?
Best answer? It depends
While mean people, frequently stereotyped as those hard charging, take no prisoner, “Type A” personality folks may make more money, turns out they don’t live as long.… Read the rest