We are not our failures, no, but our jobs need more transparency there
Transparency around the role of failure within organizations is a good thing. Continue Reading
Failure
Research on how to make good choices
We like to isolate psychology around decisions and choices from the execution of work, but we really shouldn’t. Continue Reading
The “I am a failure” problem of work
Many of us are confused about work and think we’re under-performing, but oftentimes it’s the context and clarity that are failing us. Continue Reading
A data-backed argument for business failure
Business failure: everyone runs from it and no one wants to be associated with it. But maybe that’s the wrong attitude. Here’s a recent article from Wall Street Journal on the most successful stocks of the past 30 years; Harvard Business Review then invited one of… Continue Reading
Management Skills 101: Failure happens
What if we worried less about chasing targets, and spent more time on real conversations about failure and how to grow from it? (As opposed to accusatory shouting about what didn’t happen.) Continue Reading
On Will Smith and the treadmill success theory
I came across an article on Wharton’s website about whether hiring should be based on gut or data, which is an insanely interesting topic because … well … most organizations spend about half their money going out on salaries and hiring, and… Continue Reading
Success actually isn’t a good teacher
If you were to line up a bunch of people in any industry, or job, or even family … and then you were to ask them, “Who do you learn from?” … I think most of the answers you’d get would be around… Continue Reading
The three types of workplace fear
Here’s an article about passive aggressiveness at work (which is something that ideally would have ended in the 1400s), and the author brings up an interesting point near the end. There are essentially three types of fear at work (there are… Continue Reading