The owning of culture
You don’t make more money to sit in meetings all day and periodically analyze a spreadsheet. Continue Reading
Office Culture
Consultants, surveys, and workshops, OH MY!
Most things that execs think will save their business won’t, uh, save their business. Might actually go the other way. Continue Reading
“The most powerful business asset on Earth”
It’s not your product road map, Gary. Continue Reading
Work: Pay less attention to “cultural fit,” more attention to “enculturability”
What does “cultural fit” even mean? Continue Reading
An organizational development consultant can’t save you
Rushing in because the execs can’t be bothered to think about culture issues but fear disruption, what happens next for our hero? Continue Reading
Good corporate culture has a negative side
A mostly no-bullshit approach to what’s a “way to pay people less” to many senior decision-makers. Continue Reading
Why your work culture sucks (and how to fix it)
A violation of core business tenets. Continue Reading
How to be strategic about responding to work e-mails
E-mail, at least to me, is a total boondoggle. Responding to work e-mails is an even bigger boondoggle. Let’s start with a couple of basics: There are no established ‘norms’ on how to handle e-mail E-mail represents work, but it’s often not actually… Continue Reading