Jeremy Kingsley (member profile, <a title="Jeremy Kingsley's website" href="http://jeremykingsley.com">website</a>) wrote a post about loyalty over at the <a title="Where's the Loyalty: Getting the most out of your team in trying times by Jeremy Kingsley" href="http://www.tlnt.com/2012/02/03/wheres-the-loyalty-getting-the-most-out-of-your-team-in-trying-times/">TLNT blog</a><a href="http://leadchangegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/loyal_employee_1-200x136.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7227" title="loyal_employee_1-200x136" src="http://leadchangegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/loyal_employee_1-200x136.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="136" /></a>.  He contrasted "short-term, bottom-line thinking" to loyalty and pointed out 5 negative impacts of that kind of disloyal environment.  He explained how those five impacts reduced the overall productivity and output of an organization by disengaging employees and making people feel as if they didn't count.  He then went on to relate a rare and compelling story about Ernest Shackelton's failed 1915 expedition.  Learn what this man did for his crew and Jeremy's <a title="Where's the Loyalty: Getting the most out of your team in trying times by Jeremy Kingsley" href="http://www.tlnt.com/2012/02/03/wheres-the-loyalty-getting-the-most-out-of-your-team-in-trying-times/">8 principles to build loyalty</a>.  Make sure to go check it out!