Petey’s Blog

When you think about optimizing your organization, your thoughts may conjure up the need for efficiency or effectiveness. Yet, when you look at the definitions for those terms, it is clear that organizations need to optimize both.

Bosses beware: don’t discipline workers who bad-mouth you on Facebook. The National Labor Relations Board says the comments are protected activity, just like similar complaints shared by workers around the water cooler in the office.

All of my past blogs have featured a photo of where my high-heels have been with the narrative reflecting the visual. This time what you see is three guys and a girl looking calm and businesslike. What you don’t see are my heels and the gentlemen’s well polished shoes. What you don’t know is, like the proverbial duck, how fast we all are paddling beneath that calm exterior and how excited we are to introduce an incredible program called Crisis Management – Facing the Vortex.

Despite the slowest decade of population growth since the Great Depression, the U.S. remains the world’s fastest-growing industrialized nation and the globe’s third most populous country at the same time when some are actually shrinking.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.– Aldous Huxley, writer

Our fears are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.–William Shakespeare.

Friends are those souls who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. — Napoleon Hill