Posts tagged ‘employee productivity’

Ever met folks who find something wrong with the sun shining? Or known someone who would pull a butterfly’s wing off just because they can?

There are just some people that – as my father would say- are simply put on Earth to show the rest of us how NOT to act.

If you have someone with “stinkin’ thinkin’” on your staff and if you don’t address the behavior, your employee turnover and employee productivity will suffer. Continue reading ‘Do Your Employees Have Stinkin’ Thinkin’?’ »

What’s that?  The Pareto Principle is also known as the 80/20 Rule.  We’ve all heard of this rule and it is in practice in most aspects of our lives.  Simply stated, the principle submits that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes.   Additionally, the Pareto Principle is referred to as the “law of the vital few” and the “principle of factor sparsity”.

Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, first wrote about this phenomenon in 1906.  Pareto developed a mathematical formula to document his findings that 20% of the population owned 80% of the land.  Pareto was also able to establish that 80% of the peas in his garden came from 20% of the plants. Continue reading ‘What is the Pareto Principle?’ »