Ten Signs of a Fear-Based Workplace - Yahoo! Finance

One key to a happy career for me was I got to work under quality supervisors my whole career, cared about all my coworkers, had a healthy respect for each other, and knew how to work while being positive with each other. I used to enjoy going to work and in the field office I was lucky enough to work at some of my best role models in life were folks I worked with and for like Don Hayes, Charlie Basset, Phil Murdock, and John Martin at Earlington. Later I was able to have younger folks come in to my life like Jackie Logsdon, Greg, Ryan Hammack,Mark Lamar, Leland Steely,Gaye Brewer, Ed Carroll and Allan Kidd as coworkers and that gave a lot of happiness to my life. One thing was we were there for each other. We have sat up with each others kids, been to funerals, weddings, divorces, and dating phases in our lives and pulled for each other. I know any organization can mutate into what this article talks about, but the key is to put folks first, enjoy technology and use it to your benefit and make the goal of the group more important than any tool. All good folks that folks want to work for are people people who can be successful. There is a famous line about General Marshall, in West Point, where an officer was asked to judge Marshall as a cadet. He summed it up with the very apt line, "He is the kind of officer I want to serve under." I was very lucky in my career to have that feeling with the folks that helped me be a better employee, but most importantly a better person. Ten Signs of a Fear-Based Workplace - Yahoo! Finance