“It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing”

This is the first in a series of 3 posts on human energy management at work.     Louis Armstrong famously sang: “What good is melody?  What good is music if it ain’t possessing something sweet?  Now it ain’t the melody, and it ain’t the music.  There’s something else that makes this tune complete. Yes!   It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!”   Energy.  It is that swing.  When we’ve got it, we know it!  We’ve got more ‘get-up-and-go’.  Our tasks are performed with more zest.  Our interactions with others are more effervescent.  We just feel…
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