Gems by Noah Fleming

Last week my daughter was given The Stewardship Award at her school for her love of the environment. When I asked her why she thought she was getting the award, she surprised me by not just telling me how she loved animals and the outdoors but proceeded to give me very specific examples of the small, yet…

You can’t blame them. Nobody wants to have somebody standing over their shoulder, telling them EXACTLY what to do, and leaving no autonomy. Nobody likes having a backseat driver screaming at them at the slightest deviation from the way that the manager thinks it *should* be done (regardless of the effectiveness of the approach.) I…

If you’ve been reading the Tuesday tidbits for any length of time, then you’ve no doubt heard me talk about The Hierarchy of Horrors before. If you need a refresher, you can check out this video here , or read this post here, or read about it any of my books here. In a nutshell, The Hierarchy of Horrors is a process for…

I was working with a company not long ago where the president was trying to figure out what accounted for the vast differences in productivity per employee. They’d just introduced some new, transparent metrics showing the different effectiveness levels of everybody on the team. Some who were less efficient than others were burning themselves out…