As human beings we are hardwired to seek meaning and purpose in our lives. Nowhere is this more important than work, where we spend so many of our waking hours. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, explains, “This is a world where purpose matters more than ever before. I get inspired.
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Viktor Frankl once said: It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. As humans, we tend to pursue outcomes. Yet often what we really desire is experiences that create more nuanced feelings. For example, a client of mine set a goal to take a trip to Paris.
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What would happen if your organization didn’t exist? If you closed your doors tomorrow, would the world miss you? That’s the first question we ask when we run a Noble Purpose workshop. The answers are surprising. We hear everything from, “nothing would change” to “the world would fall.
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Remember when everyone said email was going to save us so much time? How’s that working out for you? Progress comes with its price. The printing press spawned junk mail. Alexander Graham Bell’s fabulous phone begat tele-marketers. Now, thanks to the accessibility of the web, people have gone trigger.
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When I was kid growing up, I saw work in a very particular way. A lot of it stems from visiting my Dad at work, when I was six or seven. My Dad worked in a bank. It wasn’t one of these glass-windowed banks that you see now that.
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Marketing Ideas from Las Vegas Be Different New, improved, fabulous, best, etc., the language of marketing is fueled with so many meaningless adjectives that we’ve become immune to them. Yet most people are afraid to push the envelope with anything more interesting. “Need $$ for Weed” said, “I’m saying.
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Where do you start a painting project? Or any type of project? I was refinishing some furniture recently, and found myself thinking about the three classic mistakes that people make when managing project workflow. Mistake #1 – Starting with the most visible parts first Years ago, whenever I was.
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When was the last time you looked for a job or an employee on Monster.com? If you’re like most people, you’ve heard of Monster, but haven’t used it lately. Monster Worldwide has announced that CEO Sal Iaunuzzi is leaving. His departure comes after several years of declining marketing share,.
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In 2006 Monster.com was one of the 20 most visited websites in the world. By January of 2011, Monster was rated the worst stock of the year. Earlier this year, 2014, Monster launched a new strategy and global rebrand in an attempt to right their ship. It didn’t work..
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A teacher friend of mine recently expressed frustration that she doesn’t get the respect that she feels she deserves from parents and students. I wonder which feedback she’s paying attention to? Too often in life we listen to the feedback of the lowest performers, and allow it to color.
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