Keeping the Peace

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay You may not like to think about it, but you only have a certain amount of time in [...]

Scene 1, Take 1 In this movie version of ‘The Life of a Team Member’ (working title); the camera pans slowly across what appears to be a corporate office. We see workers dressed in business casual walking the hallways, coming in and out of conference rooms and sitting in cubicles. Two team members are talking [...]

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”- Abraham Lincoln Unfortunately you might know a person who says one thing and then does another. He tells everyone how many hours he works. To hear him tell it he is [...]

Perhaps you’ve patronized a business that had a sign on the wall saying something like: “We have only two rules. Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, see Rule #1.” It’s fashionable to say that the customer is always right, and I’ve seen people do some pretty silly [...]

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington Other people do form opinions about you based on your group associations. This is also why good employees leave bad teams. They simply do not want to be associated with a group that has a bad reputation. They rarely hang around to [...]