Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

It’s just too easy and lazy to say “people don’t want to work”, or “they’re sitting home getting paid.”

Mutual trust in the manager-employee relationship is critical to productivity, and one of the keys to employee engagement. This issue could not be more salient right now.   “How to […]

Last week I walked “In the Footsteps of Leaders,” the leadership course run at (and on!) the Battlefield by the Gettysburg Foundation. It was probably the best program of its sort in which I ever participated.

Management succession at all levels needs to be as critical to an organization as bench strength is to a sports roster.

“We work weekends and more hours than home office employees. They’re gone by 5 pm.”  “There’s no discipline in the field. Those guys get away with everything.”   Headquarters vs. […]