“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” Abraham Lincoln - thanks to (@jwalery):
Pain is Temporary...
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever” Lance Armstrong
Imagine
Think Big
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.”
—DANIEL BURNHAM, CHICAGO ARCHITECT. (1846-1912)
Value your workforce
When times are tough that is when the workforce need to feel valued. In the words of Richard Reeves and John Knell "Sociable workplaces are those where gossiping by the water cooler is not seen as a semi-criminal activity; where investments are made in physical spaces for people to interact; and in which the Christmas party is never, ever - from The 80 minute MBA
Conference & Incentive Travel
Cascade Productions appear in current edition of Conference & Incentive Travel with a two page case study of the Iceland Florida Conference at C&IT Magazine
Comments were from Iceland's CEO Malcolm Walker - extract:
Defending the £4m budget, Walker says: "If anyone questions our investment, the reaction of our staff should justify everything. It may be intangible, but I just know it has been worth it. Cascade Productions really pulled out all the stops and everything ran very smoothly. I just left them to get on with it and everything worked well. Just like Disney, it's the small things they do that you don't necessarily notice. For example, everywhere we went there was a red carpet down for us."
Walker sent his managers home with the news that all shopfloor staff would receive an above-average five per cent pay increase for the next year. He concludes: "I wish I could have brought all my 19,000 staff to Florida but I couldn't so hopefully the managers are now motivated for the key Christmas period and they will pass that excitement onto staff. Plus, the pay increase will help."