by Jesse Lahey | Jan 30, 2016 | Blog
Do you know what it’s like to experience the pleasure of full engagement in your life’s work? We all have “Monday blues” at least occasionally, and we all love to get away now and then for a vacation. But life is not complete unless we get that satisfied “high” that...
by Jesse Lahey | Dec 29, 2015 | Blog
Jump-start your new year with the past year’s best thinking So many books, so little time. If you’re like me, the number of appealing books published every year is overwhelming. These are the five books from this past year that I believe are the most important for...
by Jesse Lahey | Dec 15, 2015 | Engaging Leader
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations. Holacracy revolutionizes how a company is structured, how decisions are made, and how authority is distributed. Perhaps the best-known examples of...
by Jesse Lahey | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
In his book, Locked in the Cabinet, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich describes what he calls his “Pronoun Test.” I ask front-line workers to tell me about the company, and I listen for the pronouns. If the answers I get back describe the company as “they”...
by Jesse Lahey | Dec 1, 2015 | Engaging Leader
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Hourly workers make up nearly 60% of the United States workforce. They are often people who directly impact customers, such as through customer service or making the products. And improving the engagement of hourly workers can...
