Work on Your Weaknesses...Sometimes.

While the Pandemic is getting a lot of well deserved attention, the 2020’s are also bringing another phenomenon that will have a huge impact on businesses and even society in general.  We are [...]

Do you hate your job?  Do you work for an idiot boss who doesn’t know what they are doing?  Does your company not care enough for its employees and constantly make bad decisions?  Are you tired of [...]

So, how do you feel about abortion?  How about gun control?  Do you think the 2020 election was stolen?  Do you support the Black Lives Matter movement?  Do you think employers should require COVID [...]

I have taken many personality assessments over the years and most of them tell me that I have a low degree of empathy.  

Growing up, we are often taught that talent is rare.  We grade and rank our performance.  We vote for “most likely to succeed”.  We hear the value of being the best of the best.  All of this serves [...]

A decade ago, when we formed People Centric Consulting Group, we decided to implement a strange policy that was not widely used at the time.  We installed an “open time off” policy.  Essentially, [...]

We recently helped a client analyze a survey they had conducted trying to understand what benefits and activities were valued most by their employees.  This particular company worked very hard on its [...]

The words “leader” and “manager” are often used interchangeably, but they are very different words.  Many organizations refer to their executive team as their “leadership team”.  Some call us and ask [...]

Anyone who has ever attended school knows that humans live in a constant state of conflict.  The conflict is between a natural desire for all of us to be part of the village and our natural desire to [...]

When I was at 3M, I was assigned to a team to look at the quality and profitability of a longtime product.  When the team leader assembled the team, he quickly learned that many of the operators [...]