Anticipation – Are You a Penguin or a Polar Bear? A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 20, 2008 

If Friday is the last day of the workweek in your part of the world, I hope you are excited about the prospect of some relaxation, recreation,?and rejuvenation this weekend. But my greater hope would be that on Monday morning, you would have that same sense of optimistic anticipation as you return to work.? For […]

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Structural Failures within Organizations – Close is Not Good Enough

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 17, 2008 

Steve Roesler throws out the concept of applied management in his latest post?on employee survey research.? I couldn’t agree more that we need more applied management within organizations. And I would ask, just what are we applying? Is Close Good Enough? Engineers take natural laws and science-based knowledge and use this inform to inform their […]

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