Some observers argue that more and more Americans are going through extended periods during which—psychologically and culturally speaking—they are hanging onto their youth with alarming fervor. First, there's the post-teenager phase.

Can their talents actually alienate colleagues and hurt your organization?

H.L. Mencken once wrote, "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." A dispiriting thought, to be sure. It would be so much easier to think that there's one pat answer, or a single silver bullet, that could solve every problem.

In the last article on employee engagement, we talked about what engagement is, the relationship between employee engagement, high performance, and company growth, and the cost of low employee engagement levels. In this article, I want to focus on what a manager can and needs to  …

By now, many of us have heard the buzz on employee engagement – so much so that the buzzword is loosing its value.

"We wrote this book to start a revolution - a Strengths Revolution" These were the opening words of the book "Now, Discover your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. The premise is that businesses (and people) are built on two faulty assumptions: