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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 is not treating them right such as taking more sick days, missing work more often, stealing from the company, doing as little work as possible and a poorer quality of work, convincing other employees not to work as hard and refusing to share their ideas on how to improve products and services, we’re probably looking at a four to five trillion dollar price tag for this Bad Boss behavior. This is huge especially give that the size of the entire American economy is only $14 trillion. Just think of the shot in the arm it would be to our economy if American business could recover a sizable chunk of this amount.

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 Adams, creator of “Dilbert” put it, “To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn’t work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers.” The lesson here is that if you just wait around for luck to happen, it probably won’t. On the other hand, if you keep trying, one day luck will tap you on the shoulder. If you would like to read Kaplan and Marsh’s article in its entirety, here’s the link. (Archive Version) [1]

References:

1. RossReck.com, March 7, 2018 – How to Improve Your Luck

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 so they can gloat when they say, “I told you so.”

Mentors, on the other hand, want to see you succeed.  They focus on what you’re doing right and make positive suggestions on how you can do things faster, easier and better.  So, if you want to make your road to success a lot smoother, surround yourself with mentors and ignore your critics.

References:

• RossReck.com

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