Morale in the Workplace (I wrote my first book!)

If you've been following this page for any amount of time, you'll almost forget it existed in the first place. I have not posted a new article on this site in over a year.

Where have I been?

First, let me back up a bit.

I enlisted in the Air Force directly out of high school. It was during my military service when I first heard the word morale spoken. I had no idea what it was, and I had to use my context clues to figure out what it meant. I decided it meant "spirit". I was familiar with spirit. School spirit was a thing on Friday nights at the high school football game. In my earliest military days, I got the impression morale was something my unit's leadership provided to me. Morale was usually presented in late night barbecues, softball tournaments, keg parties, or however else my leaders chose to dispense morale. Unfortunately, this did not help morale.

Morale became the buzzword for everyone when attitudes were poor, and it was always the fault of our leaders for low morale. Too many airmen getting in trouble with the law? Morale must be low. Too many airmen are choosing to get out instead of re-enlist? Morale must be low. I did not realize it at the time, but morale had become the scapegoat for everything that went wrong around me. It did not matter where I went or who I worked with; the concept of morale and how it was distributed was the same.

I never realized how wrong I was and how right I was about morale. Morale is a root cause for many things (both positive and negative), but how morale is created is another story. I decided to write a book about it. That's where I've been.

This is a story about morale:
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