This is the first image I’ve worked up with full attention to color (as opposed to trying to give it the “Ansel Adams black & white treatment.”

What do you think?

Here’s a horizontal view of the falls. The subject matter had me shooting vertical all day … I should have worked harder to put the falls in context of the amazing scenery surrounding them. More of that next time. When I’ll take more time.

Black and white or color? Mouse over the image to compare.

Came across this nugget in Employee Engagement To What End? – High Performing Companies Keep The End In Sight a report from TNS Employee Insights.

What is the end HPCs are keeping in sight? Their customers, of course.

For High Performing Companies, measuring and action planning around employee engagement, compensation, supervisor relationships, and meaningful work is more than a ‘nice to have,’ more than an academic exercise.

It truly is the engine that drives performance and profitability.

The good news is this: employees who are engaged will likely work harder and be less likely to leave the firm.

The better news: if the powerful engine of employee engagement is directed outward, if the ends are the customer and the future, everyone wins in the end.

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I really like this message.

Communicating effectively requires that communicators eliminate clutter and sharply define the core concept they want to get across. The payoff is a simple, memorable message. Here is a similar, but slightly different vantage point on that notion.

In this TED video, Simon Sinek introduces the Golden Circle (I’ve reproduced his drawing at right). He says most people and organizations start at the outside and work their way in – first describing what they do or make, and how they do it. Why they do what they do gets short shrift.

The problem is, [More]