Is the CEO of your company a giant sleazebag? Well I certainly hope not, and if they are, then you should stop reading this and go apply for jobs pretty much anywhere because life is too short for sleazy executives. I certainly hope that you do not consider your CEO to be a sleazebag, but […]
Archives for November 2017
Those Shiny, Happy People Are for Real
We’re back again for another look at internal organizational influencers. Last week we considered how those grumpy Eeyores are actually valuable allies in helping you ferret out pockets of dysfunction and misery. Today, I’d like to look at the other side of the influencer coin: the Tiggers. In the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Tigger is the indefatigably […]
The Business Case for Negative Thinking
Last week we appropriated some beloved childhood characters to better identify internal organizational influencers. Now let’s dig in on those Eeyore employees. You will recall, either from A.A. Milne, or last week’s post that Eeyores are the grumpy, negative folks for whom nothing bad is surprising and everything good will eventually turn to sh*t. Such […]