Most of us understand the importance of sleep and its impact on our health and safety. Extending the importance of sleep further into the...

[NOTE: This post was updated January 2017] Multitasking is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. But it’s important to...

[NOTE: This post was updated October 2016] “Having an organizational culture that emphasizes ethical behavior can cut down on misbehavior...

Some of you may have heard that when leaders set high expectations followers rise to meet them. Well, there’s actually a concept called...

In his book, Good Boss, Bad Boss, Robert Sutton talks about a problem many of us see in our workplaces — too much talking and not enough...

Research on workplace incivility (for example, emotional abuse or rudeness in the workplace) revealed that if someone is rude to you at...

In their research studies, Porath, MacInnis, & Folkes (2010) “demonstrate[d] that witnessing an incident of employee-employee incivility...

“In 2007, nearly 80 million Americans—one out of every three adults—had some type of cardiovascular disease (CVD)…[In fact,] CVD has been...

In “Fake Work” Peterson & Nielson (2009) contend that “much of the hard work people do for their organization does little to link people...

The New York Times ran an article (Luo, 2010) that talked about job loss and adverse impacts on health. What’s most intriguing were the...

Note: If you have trouble viewing the video, you can watch it on YouTube. This is a hilarious video (watch his aerobic workouts) produced...

In “The Enthusiastic Employee” authors Sirota, Mischkind, and Meltzer (2005), working under Sirota Consulting, surveyed 2.5 million...

Photo: A North Vietnamese tank crashes through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The taking of...

I come across the topic of gender and leadership quite a bit and thought I would share what I found after researching this subject. The...

[NOTE: This post was updated November 2016] In “Leading Change,” John Kotter (1996) outlined an 8-Stage Process to Creating Major Change:...

In “Culture by Default or by Design?” Edmonds and Glaser (2010) talk about the challenge of describing the culture of an organization. In...

In an article titled, “What Really Motivates Workers” in the January-February 2010 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Amabile & Kramer...

[NOTE: This post was updated October 2017] When making decisions about whether or not to hire prospective job applicants, interviewers...

[NOTE: This post was updated December 2023 for freshness & accuracy.] Many years ago, while waiting for a show at a nice hotel in Dallas,...

Workplace incivility is defined as “the exchange of seemingly inconsequential inconsiderate words and deeds that violate conventional...