Month: March 2014

Photo courtesy of Lou Gold http://www.flickr.com/people/visionshare/ Looking for Answers Anywhere Except the Place You’ll Find Them Harvard Business Review articles are usually thought-provoking, but not the kind of thought-provoking that “Why Good Managers Are So Rare” produced. Ludicrous comes to mind; also dangerous. Randall Beck and James Harter (both of Gallup) argue that employee engagement is … Continue reading Myths of Employee Engagement →

Purim is my least favorite holiday of the Jewish year. When I was a teenager, I managed to recognize the link between Purim and the biblical verse “Now go and strike down Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, … Continue reading The Paradox of Purim Through The Eyes of Kwan Gae →