Category Change

Transient Leadership – I was right AGAIN! (so tired of this…) ;-)

In 2014 I wrote a post on LinkedIn called “Is Transient Leadership The Next Big Thing?”  8 years ago. And then 2 weeks ago strategy+business blogged that organizations need to shift from command-and-control leadership to more decentralized decision-making and leadership…. Continue Reading →

The Truth is You’re Just Not That Important

Trust me. You’re not. For some reason, the following exchange from the movie “The Social Network” between Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg and the lawyer conducting the initial deposition for the lawsuit filed by the Winklevoss twins over who created… Continue Reading →

What is Your Personal Operating System? Asking for a friend…

This isn’t a post about what I know. It’s a post to ask you about what YOU know.  I am a process maniac. I NEED to make process outlines, project timelines/Gannt charts/Kanban boards – you name it. I read probably… Continue Reading →

You’re More Tired NOT Going to Work – Why?

I’ve been holding off on posting since the world slowed down a few weeks ago even though I’m told content is king and if I stop posting I immediately become irrelevant. At least that’s what the gurus say. But I… Continue Reading →

Being Adult Means Being Afraid To Fail

I mentioned I was starting a new chapter and part of turning that page is I now have to be a novice in a lot of areas. Mostly in the “administrative” realm as I learn how to use the new… Continue Reading →

How to Know if You Need an Incentive Program

Many clients will tell me they don’t need an incentive program. They’ll tell me everything is great. They’ll say their compensation system or current rebate program covers their goals and focuses their participants on the things they want. And then… Continue Reading →

Add IRL to Your Online Incentive Platform

We rely too much on technology. Both as an enabler for tasks/process to makes us more efficient and as a buffer between people/conversations. If you’ve ever used email or text to take the place of a face-to-face conversation you know… Continue Reading →

Informed Speed – The New Black

Performance Compounding

Why You Shouldn’t “HOP” to Awards First to Influence Behavior

Read to the end – video embedded! Over my thankfully too many years in the influence, incentive and reward industry I have seen one axiomatic behavior by clients and amateur/poser solution architects when it comes to designing programs to influence… Continue Reading →

Patrick Lynch from the Frontier Group on the #”Paul”Cast

My THE Ohio State University fandom took a hit in this “Paul”Cast  because my guest – Patrick Lynch – got his undergrad at that school up north and then doubled down getting his MBA at its little sister, the Spartans…. Continue Reading →

Words With Friends – Words With Emotion

Incentives and rewards influence behavior. Recognition influences behavior. Simply paying attention influences behavior (ask Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger after their studies at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s). What you say influences behavior. HOW you say things also has… Continue Reading →

Rayanne Thorn on the “Paul”Cast … Do the thing you suck at?

Rayanne Thorn joins the “Paul”Cast to chat about doing something different with your life and your career. Normally we talk about leveraging your strengths and focusing on what you do well while outsourcing the stuff you suck at. Rayanne is… Continue Reading →

Moving Day – Will you read along with my next chapter?

I was going to post this yesterday but then I remembered it was Memorial Day and there is only one thing that needs to be said on Memorial Day. Thanks There is no need to clutter up the web with… Continue Reading →

HR Professionals – You Wouldn’t Like Them When They’re Angry

Seems HR gets more than their fair share of abuse. From HBR running their ongoing series on why HR sucks or how HR needs to change to why everyone hates HR. What exactly did HR do to Harvard Business Review?… Continue Reading →

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