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Kenan Samms

Five Best Practices for Leveraging Generation Differences in the Workplace

  After writing and speaking on the topic of cross generation communication for over seven years, I’ve collected best practices from clients and people who have attended my programs and/or read my ...READ»

Kenan Samms

The Silent Epidemic of HIV and AIDS; Why Should Anyone Care

Today was World AIDS Day, and the topic was awareness and corporate involvementREAD»

Kenan Samms

How Sun Microsystems Fans the Flames of Employee Passion

Do your employees hate to come to work or............READ»

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Starwood Hotels are Heavenly for Guests and Employees

Listening to employees can result in service and product rewards.READ»

Kenan Samms

Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success

Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre, and author of " Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow," shares why his employees love to come to work.READ»

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How Cisco Creates Loyal Employees; Life/Work Integration Policies Pay Off

An employee who loves to do her best work and keep her family happy.READ»

Kenan Samms

Are Your Employees Also Your Honored Guests?

Here is a sure way to enhance the quality of life for your employees and customers. READ»

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How Oracle and Sun Microsystems Can Reduce Buy-out Stress

Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts can be stressful and ruin a good day if steps aren't taken to help employees be successful.READ»

Kenan Samms

Finding Calm In Stress

how my dog locked me out of house and helped me find peace of mindREAD»

Kenan Samms

Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive Stress Solutions

Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive  Stress Solutions  According to the National Institutes of Health, “people who feel more in control at their jobs tend to feel less stressed ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Risk and Reward on a French Water Slide: is your business making a splash?

Starting a business is always risky. For those of us who’ve started successful businesses we’ve had to balance risks and the promise of rewards. Sometimes you feel the fear but do it anyway, because if you don’t do it, ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Are You Planning a Vacation or a Staycation?

“Staycations” are a myth and waste of time for entrepreneurs and business leaders.In case you’re wondering what a staycation is, here is a definition from Wikipedia.“A staycation (or stay-cation, or stacation, or staykation) ...READ»

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Building Relationships Can Reduce Stress; NY cabbie finds cell phone

A recent experience reinforced my belief that building relationships can relieve stress and that having a diversity and inclusion outlook can help build relationships.   My son and I were in New York for a few ...READ»

Kenan Samms

How the Internet Ruined Almost Ruined My London Vacation

Actually it was the lack of Internetaccess that caused me great stress and threatened to impede my life/workbalance. I’m in London with my 15-year-oldson. We arrived last night from Berkeley, CA. Since life/work balance is ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Stop Warning Me to Get Ready for the End

  I can’t take any more newsletters warning me to get ready for the end of the  recession  as though I should be building a bomb shelter. If I didn’t know better I would think they were trying to scare me into hoarding ...READ»

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Are You Preparing for the Economic Upswing or is Your Customer Service in Recession?

While some shortsighted organizations have cut back on customer service there are organizations that  continue to create the kind of extraordinary experiences for their customers that ensure repeat business. The Kimpton Hotels and ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Don't Be a Grinch In Today's Economy

According to the American Psychological Association stressis costing US businesses 300 Billion Dollars.Millions of people are stressed out like never before.Companies have gone out of business, there have been massive lay-offs, and ...READ»

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If You Lived Every Day Like It Was Your Last Day, You Wouldn't Get Anything Done

I confess that there are some weekends where I sit at my computer writing or researching for hours to meet client deadlines or catch up on work. The last time I did this, a colleague who knew I consulted on life/work balance issues ...READ»

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Think for Yourself; It's Your Life and Work!

When I told a colleague that I was going to take two extra days for myself in the interest of life/work balance after I was done working in Florida, she was aghast. “How can you consider that life/work balance when it means ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Use It or Lose It; Your Balanced Brain

There’s no real hourly formula for life/work balance. There are “experts” who will give you algebraic equations on how to spend your time. We can get the formula and use it to have non-work time, but if we spend our ...READ»

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Is Your Mind in Control? Pick an Option!

Sometimes the whole world feels out of balance. I have to tell myself that I’m not the whole world nor does the world revolve around me in my private world. But within my private world I can still have a sense of balance, no ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Stressed By My Own Stress Management- Pull the Plug!

I’m at the airport on my way to Las Vegas to facilitate a program on Stress Management in These Stressful Times for hotel executives, and I’m feeling really stressed. In fact at this moment sitting in the airport is like a ...READ»

A new journey

This weekend marks the start of a new journey for President elect Barack Obama. He is leading Americans toward a historical day on Tuesday, January 20th, through his words of hope, optimism, and valor for the future . He is absolutely ...READ»

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What now?

2009 is waiting for you to Think Beyond Your Current Circumstances. What does this mean? Thinking Beyond Your Current Circumstances is a state of mind that begins with a thought and ends with action. For example, if you are not ...READ»

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Thinking Beyond Your Current Circumstances

Thinking Beyond Your Current Circumstances is about employees in the automotive industry, who have succeeded in positively transforming and changing their lives as a result of them taking advantage of opportunities. So you might be ...READ»

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