Chronic Time Pressure

Chronic Time Pressure

“I never have enough time.” When people talk about their more frustrating work-related problems, the issue of time, or the lack of it, comes up most often. For many people, there is not enough time to get their work done and this can be a serious and chronic source of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Vocation

From a sermon preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Second Church, Boston, October 21, 1832: How many men now regard their business as so much interruption, as so much injury to their religious life? Their religious character is something separate from their daily...
Passion and Our Work

Passion and Our Work

When is passion for our work positive? And when is it negative? When is passion for our work positive? And when is it negative? We sometimes hear that we should “follow our passion.” But what happens when we actually do have a passion for our work—or maybe some other...

How to Keep Employees

Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal has written an interesting article based on an interview with Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn.  There are several key insights from Hoffman; one involved keeping innovative and adaptive employees in the newer heavily...