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No, Mother’s Day doesn’t mean your mom is perfect

Motherhood

The No. 1 brand in the entire world isn’t Apple, or Exxon, or Google, or anything like that … it’s motherhood. That’s the most tied up in “should-be good” feelings, the future of our world, and everything that we’re taught is… Continue Reading

There’s a black America and a white America. They are NOT the same.

Black America vs. White America

From here, which is in turn from here, comes this chart: Pretty hard to look at that and argue whites and blacks have the same experience in this country; 2,207 per 100,000 African-Americans in America are in jail. That’s 2.2… Continue Reading

Did you hold the job you now manage?

Employees vs. Managers

Cool interview with Jack and Suzy Welch on Wharton’s website here. If you’re unfamiliar, Jack ran GE for about 21 years. (Big deal.) Suzy was an editor of Harvard Business Review. (Also a big deal to many.) Now they have a school… Continue Reading

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What if “the flexibility stigma” cripples the U.S. economically?

The Flexibility Stigma

Here’s one study — and yes, it’s just one — and here’s the corresponding summary and analysis at Harvard Business Review. If you can’t figure out what “the flexibility stigma” might be on face, let me briefly explain: people want more flexibility about their… Continue Reading

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Maybe Slack could finally end some corporate seat time discussions

Corporate Seat Time

Last April, I wrote about how maybe Slack could revolutionize the workplace; then in February, I wrote about how they got to a $2 billion valuation with no CMO, which is insanely rare for a lot of companies. There’s something… Continue Reading

You need to start killing off good ideas

Saying No To Good Ideas

Stop chasing every possible way to make some loot. Continue Reading

Content marketing might actually be taking people OFF message

Content Marketing 101

Look, there are ways to do content marketing right — Hubspot mostly does it right, and they wrote up this post this week after hitting 15,000 customers — and then there are ways to do it wrong, which notably means “Following an expert… Continue Reading

West Virginia ain’t a great place to be a woman, it seems

Status of Women By State V2

From here, which is in turn from here:  Then there’s this: This confirms basically every stereotype about the white, elitist Northeast as compared to the back-water, hick-ish South and Southeast. West Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi seem particularly egregious in this… Continue Reading