When an employee quits they don’t quit the company they quit their boss. A survey I recently completed showed 36% of the people quit their previous employer because of their supervisor. A painful statistic when you consider how difficult it is to find good people. This is sad when you look at the bottom line and stupid when you do nothing about.

The movie Saving Pvt. Ryan hits you with shocking realism.  From the beginning to the end, you feel as if you are there. 

"We have struck iceberg. . .sinking fast. . .come to our assistance."  Burning the airwaves came those words late in the cold evening of 1912.  Before they tapped the last bit of Morse code, those words became the epitaph over the lives of the 1200 people lost on the Titanic.  The ship was doomed and it was slowly sliding into its watery grave.  Why did the largest, most advanced ship of the century sink? 

Do you have people in your office that dislike each other?  Do they cause problems for everyone else?  Conflict in the workplace is a painful reality. 

A. W. "Bill" Dahlberg, the former CEO of Southern Company believes in having fun. At company gatherings, he has impersonated soul singer James Brown….dressed as General George Patton… and arrived decked out as a fortune teller complete with crystal ball.