The People Equation

 
If your job didn’t require it, would you want to write a blog with your co-workers? Fortunately, the team at Talented Apps answer is “yes!”
This month’s Leadership Carnival is hosted by a “face” that’s new to me . . .or make that several faces: the folks at the Talented Apps blog. The Talented Apps blog [...]

As part of an ongoing blog series on Positive Office Politics  (follow #OPQ on Twitter), Susan Mazza asks “What’s Your Agenda?” In this blog post, she explores personal motivations and how they show up in the workplace.  She says:
We ALL have agendas. You could say our ambitions, no matter how altruistic or noble they may be, [...]

Whenever I attend a business networking event and mention Twitter, I invariably get a group of people flocking to me wanting to know more about the social media micro-blogging site. They want to know “How do I get started?” “Is it really a viable business marketing tool?” and “Twitter seems so frivolous—does anybody really care [...]

It’s great when a fellow blogger inspires me to get revved up on a topic. And so it is with Mary Jo Asmus’ series on the role that employees should play in helping their leaders improve.  Last week, in response to her post “Bad Manager or Flawed Human?” the discussion on her blog was lively.  [...]

As part of an ongoing series on Positive Office Politics, Mike Henry from the Lead Change Group writes a thought-provoking essay on the ties that sincerity and authenticity have to building trust.  Need to get caught up on the series?  Start at the beginning with Jane Perdue’s blog Life, Love and Leadership. From there, check out my [...]

Today is Thank Your Mentor Day, which is part of National Mentoring Month.  Who knew?  Over the years I’ve had LOTS of fantastic mentors, and this is a perfect time to give them a well-deserved shout-out. The list below represents my former work team leaders, company executives, peers and fellow entrepreneurs. Interestingly, none of them [...]

Today I attended a networking luncheon for the newly formed Grand Rapids Entrepreneur’s Club.  This fledgling organization was started by my colleague Cyndi Sullivan.  Years ago, Cyndi and I were on the founding committee for a different networking group; I’ve come to admire her work ethic and positive, pay-it-forward approach to networking. The Grand Rapids chapter is [...]

One of the many gifts I received in 2009 was my association with Lisa Rosendahl.  We met on Twitter, talked on the phone, and collaborated on a blog post about mentoring. Our connection has blossomed to the point where we now share information about our kids’ lives, DMing each other about birthday parties, big “firsts” [...]

Many blog experts counsel to “keep your main thing your main thing” meaning: if I say I’m blogging about workplace dynamics, then stay true to that theme.  And for the most part I do.  Once in awhile, though, I get inspired by someone looking to use their blogs for the greater good.  Today that someone [...]

This post is part of a series on positive office politics, or The P Quotient. It’s a collaborative effort with fellow bloggers Jane Perdue, Mike Henry and Susan Mazza. Jane kicked off the series with a look at the competencies cited as key to being politically astute. She also takes a swipe at the myth [...]