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I just watched Michael Phelps win his eighth Olympic Gold Medal.

A heat wave rolled through the South, and Atlanta has been swelteringly hot.

I've been hearing a lot lately about “The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work.”

Recognizing that unprofessional, disruptive workplace behavior can adversely affect patient care and safety, JCAHO (the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) announced new accreditation standards this month for healthcare organizations and their leadership.

Forget the standard stuff about sexual harassment training, AB 1825, or online compliance training. This year's SHRM-goer had a different perspective on things.

Can business culture learn a lesson from the high-priced gasoline culture?

The blatant cases of harassment and discrimination are gone, people keep telling us.

A few months ago, I was speaking to a client who told me there had been incidents of bad practices and ethical issues arising in her workplace.

Last Friday I dead-lifted 260 pounds. In other words, I picked up a 45-pound bar with 107.5 pounds attached to each end and stood it straight up. It was heavy. It was also one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done in my life.

I have had several back-to-back trips this past month, flying from one city to another.

You have to feel sorry for this year’s crop of Pulitzer winners. Their moment in the spotlight will most likely be shadowed to some degree by the headline that Bob Dylan is now a Pulitzer-prize-winning artist.

We piloted a Professional Global Management^® session in Brussels, Belgium last week, and I could not have asked for better results.

Beyond the political significance of Barack Obama’s epic speech this week, whatever its effect  on this year’s election, I hope and believe his remarks will kindle continued, thoughtful discussions about what race and color mean in our daily lives.

I’ve thought a lot about leadership over the past few years – it’s what every firm says it needs to build better, more efficient, inclusive ethical and lawful workplaces. Go to any bookstore and the shelves will be lined with first-person or biographical accounts of epic leaders –Washington, Lincoln, King, Patton, Schwarzkopf, Welch, Jobs, Gates. Those leaders are few and far between, and most of us read about them hoping to find nuggets of wisdom we can apply.

Our training sessions with Memphis, our German Shepherd pup, have continued.

We’re updating our Civil Treatment^® programs now, a complex, creative, and exciting process.

On Sunday, my wife and I attended a rally protesting the genocide in Darfur. 400,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million are homeless, there is untold violence, and the genocide continues.

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday -- he would have been 79 -- and as the upcoming holiday celebrating the man and his achievements approaches, I'm reminded of something he once said that is a driving force behind what we're all hoping to accomplish in the workplace:

In the midst of this exciting primary season, I’ll stay non-partisan but make this observation: Candidates in both parties are revising their messages in light of what the voters are saying is important.

Memphis Rae, our newest family member, is an 8-month-old German Shepherd puppy who we found through the Georgia Shepherd Rescue. She’s a great looking dog, very bright and mostly friendly, and gets along with our whole family, including Monroe, a gentle, regal Shepherd also from Georgia Rescue, who is about 2 1/2.

The Falcons are 3-11 having just lost to Tampa Bay. They may well lose the rest of their games -- an awful season. But the wins and losses are not what will be remembered.

I just got back from a long roadtrip from Atlanta to Boston to New York to Atlanta. Like just about everyone else I saw, I carried my version of the necessary road warrior package – a laptop, Blackberry/cell phone, ipod, and camera, plus separate chargers for each.

One of the great things about being in Marketing (besides getting first dibs on the latest tradeshow give-aways and toys) is hearing the interesting and inspiring stories from our clients about their experiences implementing our programs.

We just completed a major renovation to our office space, and I’m happy to say my new office is clean and it will stay that way.

Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to old friends – or, in this case, old characters who feel like old friends.

When it comes to fashion, it seems everyone has an opinion, and our course vignettes are no different.

The New York Times Test is mentioned often in the context of corporate misbehavior.

With millions watching a game that will make football history, the Super Bowl is a high-stakes event – the very definition of stress, tension, and intensity.

On a recent morning, our company visited the Martin Luther King Center and toured the MLK birthplace here in Atlanta.

We’ve been hearing stories of bloggers who’ve lost their jobs for writing entries that their employers decided were inappropriate.

So many conversations go nowhere because they’re monologues and the wrong person is talking.