Publications
October 1, 2021
Weekly Report 21-72
MOTIVATING WORKERS TO PERFORM OPTIMALLY is dependent on process and your personal expectations, but usually more a matter of compatibility with the employee’s values. Motivation is “a skill to create the three psychological needs for generating the vitality to thrive: choice, connection and competence.” When insufficient performance leads a manager/supervisor to ‘write up’ that person... Continue
September 29, 2021
Weekly Report 21-71
STRATEGIC PLANNING IS TYPICALLY A PROCESS OF “ALIGNING the (presumed & forecasted) external environment with internal capabilities, but developing strategy inside-out with a group of executives is likely to be more operational than strategic, more continue-as-before than innovative… The rapid face of change in business – shift to online, rise of start-ups, digital marketing, social... Continue
September 22, 2021
Weekly Report 21-70
“PEOPLE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO AVOID UNPLEASANT INFORMATION THAT MAKES THEM FEEL BAD.” A new 5000-person Harvard study found that even more prevalent than inattention or laziness being the rationale for ‘tuning out’ information, people chose to “avoid negative info that impacted decisions benefiting themselves at the expense of others – the ‘selfish option’... Continue
September 18, 2021
Weekly Report 21-69
THE COVID HOSPITALIZATION NUMBERS ARE MISLEADING. Researchers from Harvard & Tufts Medical Schools studied Veterans Health Care Systems records for some fifty thousand admissions across the country to conclude that in the first six months of 2021 – after vaccination was widespread but before the Delta variant had arrived – “roughly half of all hospitalized... Continue
September 15, 2021