The refrain: “Create good jobs!” But like, do executives and founders WANT to do that?
We keep saying the same stuff about “repairing the economy,” but the people pulling the levers don’t seem to want that. Continue Reading
Training
The Blunder Years, Episode 29: Early-20s misguided friends to late-30s analyzing each other
17 years after becoming friends, me and Diana try to analyze each other using in-market assessment tools. Holler. Continue Reading
The thing is … re-training programs don’t really work that well…
It’s often framed up as the “answer” to automation concerns, but the problem is that the programs don’t really have positive results. Continue Reading
The leadership assessment vacuum
We talk about important things for 67 hours, then we never revisit them when they would actually matter in context. Continue Reading
The issue of incomplete information at work
Where the quest for relevance and remaining relevant starts to harm work projects. Continue Reading
Diversity training: Too often, it feels like a PR stunt
Some new research indicates that it does (yay!) but not for the groups that actually need it (boo). Continue Reading
Decades later, most managers still don’t know what “delegation” is at all
Gotta move it away from the low-context handoff. Continue Reading
So, are modern manager-employee relationships akin to slavery?
At the very least, there’s a messy link here we need to discuss. Continue Reading