Happy New Year!

As the clock ticks down toward midnight tonight, the crew at Designing Leaders wants to wish you, your family, and your employees a very happy and prosperous new year. Now, go to a party!

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An Ounce of Prevention is Cheaper Than a Pound of Cure

Talking with a foreign software developer here in Singapore last week, he told me his company’s health benefits have pretty good coverage when a problem comes up, but they do not cover expenses for preventative care. He did not just mean they do not subsidize gym memberships; he meant they do not pay for physical […]

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It is Just a Job

Retaining employees

This needs to stop. We have been hearing for some time about life in the finance industry and how the most junior employees and interns cease to have a life when they start out at an investment bank or in many other parts of the sector. No one seemed surprised that overwork may have contributed […]

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