This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Lest you think I’m going to arrive here throwing turds and/or grenades at corporate pay structures, let’s start by covering off on one thing: I actually took a graduate-level compensation class in, well, graduate school … and I got an… Continue Reading
Here’s a solid-ish quote from Mark Twain: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Anyone with a brain in their head would realize this was eventually… Continue Reading
I personally feel we should ban the term “lead generation” from marketing and sales discussions, but really … who the hell am I? Many companies try to set up their website or general marketing/sales funnel to “optimize” (buzzword hell) for… Continue Reading
Brene Brown is the speaker behind one of the most popular TED Talks of all-time, and now she’s got a new book coming out — so she’s making the media rounds. Here she is with Fast Company: Last year, Brown gave… Continue Reading
I’ve worked a lot of different places, and had a lot of different bosses, and observed a lot of different senior management teams (and been friends with quite a few), and most of them focus on revenue (and/or growth) first and foremost. This… Continue Reading
I got back from a week in Las Vegas – which is a long time to be there – on Friday night around 11pm. I hung out with my wife for a while, as I barely remembered what she looked like at… Continue Reading
Check out this graphic; I got it from an article on Harvard Business Review about the leadership traits that employees don’t like about their managers: Break this down for a second:
I sometimes understand — don’t per se ‘get it,’ but understand it — when companies could care less about their employees, because oftentimes employees are seen as almost transactional. They come, they do a job, you pay them X-amount of money, and they leave. That’s… Continue Reading