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Latest from Gallup: Only about 30% of US employees are engaged in their jobs.  Such employees have managers who encourage their development and focus on their strengths. The remaining 70% of employees are either not engaged at work (50% of all employees) or actively disengaged (20%). Worldwide, only 13% of employees are engaged. Who engages employees? People with the talent to manage teams. Gallup scientists have found that managers account for 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units.  The problem is, every day, thousands of employees are named “manager” or “supervisor” who have little to no capacity to perform that task. Gallup has uncovered that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right person talent for the job of manager 82% of the time. Those companies are wasting time and resources attempting to train bad managers to be who they’re not. There’s a reason for this: Authentic management talent is very rare. It takes Moneyball...

You may wonder: I am a professional manager, what has love got to do with my work? As we know, a manager is only good if he can get good people to work for him and get good people to stay .  Often companies are caught in a vicious circle: they need to hire people quickly to replace the loss of good people.  Once people come in, they are given everything (money, power, fame, position, responsibility and stress) except one thing: love .  As a result, good people leave them fast and they are soon caught in busy trend: hiring.   Of course you could say that everyone in your industry is facing the same problem, this country has labour shortage, right?  It is not your fault as your company's salary is already very competitive.  Being a responsible manager, you know you have to do something to stop this.  Now there is a new strategy to do this: using Love.  Because if you don't love them, you'll lose them.  To many people, love is a dirty wor...

Yes, it is getting more obvious that people are getting more disconnected despite of the proliferation of tools that 'connect' like smartphones, tablets and smart watches.  We know that connection is beyond 'being there', it is also not about being 'on line' or 'on the line'. Connection is nothing but connecting at the heart and spirit level .  It is beyond connecting at the body level, and also above the mind level.  You'll know when you're connected to someone when both of you 'get it ', and you don't need to show anyone that connection exists.  Like a loving couple, they are truly connected at every minute of their date even when they 'do nothing' at their dates.  Note that the Chinese used to think of connection at the 'blood' or family level, but this is just body connection and may not even be mind connection. The recent MH370 Plane Disaster showed that the families of the victims were simply 'disgusted...