I’m still reading Michael Polllan’s book “Second nature: a gardener’s education”. This time I want to talk about his description of the garden world’s plants hierarchy. At the top stand the very civilized plants such as the rose and at the bottom are the weeds, attempting to take over. Where plants fall in this chain [...]
Tags: disengaged employees, employee engagement, Karen Schmidt, Organisational culture
So I’m working away at the weeding down at Northey Street City Farm the other day and the Co-ordinator leading volunteers that day strikes up a conversation with me about what I do when I’m not attempting to rid the world of weeds. I answer and respond by asking him about his background and find [...]
Tags: Karen Schmidt, Leadership and gardening, Leadership skills, Leading is like gardening, www.nscf.org.au
What do real estate, employee engagement and gardening have in common? Success is all about position, position, position! Columnist Michael McCoy from Gardening Australia Magazine explored the issue of position in one of his recent articles in reference to a plant he has, a Helleborous called “Mrs Betty Ranicar”, that had issues because it was [...]
Tags: Career path, employee engagement, Karen Schmidt, Leadership and gardening, Leadership and management
There is a growing movement to bring back old style heirloom varieties of plants. They are varieties that were commonly grown in the past but fell out of favour as we developed newer varieties. Before the industrialisation of agriculture a much wider variety of plant foods were grown for human consumption. Today most food crops [...]
Tags: employee engagement, Employee morale, Karen Schmidt, Organisational culture
Here is my latest video blog post filmed on Langkawi Island, Malaysia. Tweet
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