Musings on a Monday Morning from Mike Mullin…
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September 16, 2019 – Monday Morning Musings from the Heart of New Jersey
Good morning!
Coming to you this morning from Downtown Washingmachine, DC — visiting our one-year-old granddaughter. It was 90 degrees as we hiked around the Capitol Hill neighborhood yesterday, humidity not too bad. I first visited this city in 1974… a few changes since then when you could just walk in to most of the buildings and monuments.
- Year after year Babson College is ranked #1 for graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship.
- The world will not long survive without entrepreneurs.
- Now celebrating its 100th year the college continues to grow, to get stronger, and to increase its footprint in the world.
- Its new president, Steve Spinelli, says all that’s needed is courage — and they’ve got everything else.
- “We have all the skills. We have the history. We have the intellectual content. We have the reputation. We just need the courage to be bold.”
- Let’s keep an eye on this #1 blue ribbon organization to see what happens next — and what we can learn.
- “We have all the skills. We have the history. We have the intellectual content. We have the reputation. We just need the courage to be bold.”
- Its new president, Steve Spinelli, says all that’s needed is courage — and they’ve got everything else.
- Now celebrating its 100th year the college continues to grow, to get stronger, and to increase its footprint in the world.
- The world will not long survive without entrepreneurs.
- Engagement—the degree to which people invest discretionary effort on the job—has been all the rage in business circles for years.
- Engaged employees are absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work. They have a sense of psychological ownership of their organization’s purpose and success.
- The Gallup organization’s Q12 survey has gathered data from tens of millions of people.
- The good news is that employee engagement seems to be slowly increasing.
- The bad news is that engagement of U.S. employees still hovers at around 35%.
- The good news is that employee engagement seems to be slowly increasing.
- The Gallup organization’s Q12 survey has gathered data from tens of millions of people.
- Engaged employees are absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work. They have a sense of psychological ownership of their organization’s purpose and success.
- What are you reading?
- In our opinion the differences between the millennial generation and the so-called baby boomers have been overstated, sometimes given to hyperbole.
- And, whatever happened to the X’ers; why no deserved time for them in the spotlight?
- But, as with most things, it’s the subtleties that are important and there is much to learn from our friends in their 20s and 30s.
- If you are new to this discussion, try a trite but helpful little book, Millennials vs. Boomers: Listen, Learn, and Succeed Together, Harvey & Clark, 2017.
- But, as with most things, it’s the subtleties that are important and there is much to learn from our friends in their 20s and 30s.
- And, whatever happened to the X’ers; why no deserved time for them in the spotlight?
- In our opinion the differences between the millennial generation and the so-called baby boomers have been overstated, sometimes given to hyperbole.
- Continued from that Harvard Business Review article on Silos:
- “What type of job leads to sharing or hiding knowledge?
- Because cognitively demanding work (for example, problem solving) can be more interesting and stimulating, and also more difficult and challenging, we expected that people would both enjoy sharing information more and see a greater need to share.
- Similarly, because having more autonomy in one’s work leads to finding it more meaningful, we’d expect to see the same propensity for sharing.
- Our results supported these ideas.
- When people’s jobs involved high cognitive demands and autonomy, they shared useful knowledge more frequently.”
- Our results supported these ideas.
- Similarly, because having more autonomy in one’s work leads to finding it more meaningful, we’d expect to see the same propensity for sharing.
- Because cognitively demanding work (for example, problem solving) can be more interesting and stimulating, and also more difficult and challenging, we expected that people would both enjoy sharing information more and see a greater need to share.
- “What type of job leads to sharing or hiding knowledge?
- When will you give yourself the greatest gift of all, the gift of time?
- Schedule a no-obligation, no-cost initial exploratory visit with Without a Vision Consultancy today.
You don’t change culture through e-mails and memos, you change it through relationships, one conversation at a time. (Common sense; unknown attribution)
Coffee
By Michael A. Mullin
Freshly roasted, ground, and brewed coffee
as dawn is breaking is about as necessary and wonderful
a pleasure as a perfectly chilled and properly proportioned
martini at four o’clock in the afternoon enjoyed with
a good friend and a salty potato chip or two.
©2017 Michael A. Mullin
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