“You have to change or we’re leaving.” Those may be some of the most powerful words to hit me as CEO of Tasty Catering. And they’re also ones I am most grateful for two employees having the courage to fire at me in 2005. When Tim and Jamie approached me, it must have felt like confronting a drill … [Read more...]
Great Book, Contagious Culture, by Anese Cavanaugh
As a leader it's important to understand "how you show up" and that YOU directly impact the tone of your organization. With that said, I’m excited to let you know about my friend Anese Cavanaugh’s book Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that … [Read more...]
APA’s Five Measurable Areas to Achieving a Psychologically Healthy Workplace in Action at Tasty Catering
This year, our company was awarded the APA’s Psychologically Healthiest Workplace Award in the Small For-Profit Category. This is arguably the most significant achievement in our organization’s twenty-five year existence. I will have the honor of representing Tasty Catering as a company and … [Read more...]
How to Attract (and Keep) Olympic-Caliber Employees
In the last post, we compared an entangled employee to an Olympian, versus an engaged employee, or collegiate athlete. Just to recap, the engaged employee has risen to a level above most other employees. He has skills, commitment and dedication but doesn’t exhibit the same kind of care for the … [Read more...]
Entangled Employees are ‘Olympians’ at the Office
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the Olympic Games are going on right now, or maybe that’s what sparked the idea for this blog post. Two years ago, when we set out to write our book on the phenomenon known as “organization entanglement” with fellow co-authors, Dr. Ray Benedetto and Dr. Ken … [Read more...]
Steps To Help Prepare For a Small Business Interview
Why are so many academics obsessed with training their students to enter the major corporation-workforce when America’s business model has shifted from large corporations to small corporations? The answer is simple: they shouldn’t be. There are approximately 2,000 major corporations with over $1 … [Read more...]
Rethinking Mission-Vision-Values
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Trusting Employees To Make The Right Decision
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Get Me Some Coffee
When people hear the word “intern”, the phrase “I’d like a coffee, with cream and 2 sugars” is usually what comes to mind. However, when I was brought on to work for Tasty Catering as the copywriting intern for nuphorIQ (one of Tasty’s sister companies), I knew that this would be an a-typical, … [Read more...]
“Who Will Buy?”: The Question that Plagues Boomer Entrepreneurs.
The numbers are in, and the reality can be overwhelming. Ten thousand adults born during the Baby Boomer era of 1940 through 1960 are retiring every day in the US. 2010 was the year that Millennials became the largest generation in the work force. 2011 was the year that women replaced men as … [Read more...]