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Service Makes Us Smile

Erika Smith2020-01-09T21:56:37+00:00January 15th, 2020|holidays, leadership, Uncategorized|

We've heard by now that helping others leads to happiness. Ahead of the 25th Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, we're looking at opportunities to be of service to the community. Last year, ICMA published a post about how cities and towns help their communities embrace Dr. King's legacy of community service. Here are [...]

“The best employees are the disagreeable ones”
“The best employees are the disagreeable ones”

“The best employees are the disagreeable ones”

Erika Smith2019-04-16T19:01:35+00:00April 17th, 2019|leadership, office management|

Administrative/Superintendent by White Sands National Monument via Flickr You can agree to disagree, but Adam Grant asserts that, on a grid of givers and takers, friendly and grouchy, the best employees are grouchy givers. Has this been your experience? Where do you fall on the spectrum? Read the article on Quartz Media, and weigh in [...]