The Blunder Years, Episode 40: Dealing with ego and loyalty, raising kids
A 50-minutes-or-so conversation about parenting, loyalty, ego, Tom Hanks movies, selling, and self-awareness. Continue Reading
Mentorship
Don’t lip service coaching and mentoring
“That’s a HR thing, right? I’m out here slaying targets! No time to worry about these rank-and-file peons!” Continue Reading
How to create a mentorship culture at your job
I think the concept of ‘making an impact for other people’ — or having influence, or getting people to listen to you — are ideas that we sometimes reserve for professors, or authors, or ‘thought leaders,’ or CEOs, or motivators.… Continue Reading
Assigned mentorship is dead. So what next?
The concept of “mentorship” is fairly important, insofar as young people come into workplaces unclear of the responsibilities and expectations and policies and politics (in part because their higher education experiences don’t prepare them for that), and having someone to help you… Continue Reading