This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
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
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: