When employees feel abused, mistreated or unappreciated by their boss, they either look for a job somewhere else or they retaliate by cutting back on their productivity. Researchers have estimated that the cost of employee turnover alone in America to be $1.7 trillion annually. Then, if you factor in the other things employees are motivated to do when they feel their boss … [Read more...] about Bad Bosses Cause a Huge Drain on the American Economy – Ross Reck
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Ross Reck: How To Improve Your Luck
A Great Book by Janice Kaplan Janice Kaplan and Barnaby Marsh wrote an article about their new book, How Luck Happens, which recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal. According to the article, two of the key traits of successful people are persistence and optimism—to keep trying again and again, knowing that sooner or later one of those tries is going to succeed. As Scott … [Read more...] about Ross Reck: How To Improve Your Luck
Ross Reck: Avoiding the Easy Way Out Leads to a Far More Meaningful Life
My wife, who directs a foster care and adoption agency, recently taught a class to would-be foster parents. She was discussing some of the challenges and difficulties that come with being a foster parent when one of the people attending the class raised her hand and said, “We do not want to have our life be as easy as it can be. We are interested more in having a purpose in … [Read more...] about Ross Reck: Avoiding the Easy Way Out Leads to a Far More Meaningful Life
Never Confuse Critics with Mentors
Critics vs. Mentors On the road to success we all encounter two groups of people: critics and mentors--and it's important that we not confuse the two. Critics are, by far, the largest of the two groups. They are people who are not all that successful themselves and are jealous of other people's success. They love to point out what you're doing wrong and they want you to fail … [Read more...] about Never Confuse Critics with Mentors
Does Your Daily Life Require More Kindness
When we realize just how tethered to one another we truly are, we can begin to see through the veil which separates us and imagine other people’s lives as mirrors of our own. You cannot be human in isolation but only when united with other people. We must appreciate the interconnection,the process by which we are woven to one another from the moment of our birth, bonding us … [Read more...] about Does Your Daily Life Require More Kindness