Organizations like to describe women as “abrasive”
The gender bias in performance reviews can be pretty ridiculous. Continue Reading
Month: August 2014
Elizabeth Cauvel vs. Courtney Lapresi is going to be the MasterChef 2014 finale, right?
It seems like they’ve been building to a female showdown as the finals for some time now, right? Continue Reading
Facebook eliminating clickbait headlines is a purely business move
You may have heard about Facebook’s attempts to eliminate / remove ‘click bait,’ or, essentially, articles that kind of tease you into clicking on them — bait you, in other words — with a controversial or attention-seeking headline or photo, then fail to… Continue Reading
No one really understands the unemployment rate
There are actually six different “unemployment rates,” although predominantly when people use that term in cocktail party banter, they mean “the number of people looking for work who can’t actively find it.” But by no means is that the entire picture (I wrote… Continue Reading
Why meetings are awful
Most gatherings of business teams are utterly devoid of proper context. Here’s why. Continue Reading
How old and experienced is an average CEO?
In the fall of 2012, I had a semi-interesting conversation with a kid I was going to graduate school with. At the time, I think I was 31; the other person in question was 24. We were both males. The… Continue Reading
Exploring white attitudes on African-Americans in prisons
The whole topic of racial attitudes around incarnation is very fraught — and also very complicated, as entire bodies of research are penned on it across people’s careers. I can’t begin to scratch the surface. I do know this, as… Continue Reading
Beth-Ellen Vinson, Rick Heath, lie detectors and cold cases
The Beth-Ellen Vinson case has been getting some renewed attention lately, 20 years after the disappearance and murder. Here’s what happened: Vinson left her apartment near North Carolina State University around 2:30 a.m. the morning of Aug. 16, 1994, and three… Continue Reading