This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Employee-manager relationship: challenging. Work: inherent clusterfuck much of the time. Reasons for this: numerous. Some reasons are even rooted in science! Here’s one: “[The brain’s] need [to survive] focuses attention on the sources of danger and on trying to predict where the next… Continue Reading
Found this over on Mack Collier — he’s a good dude and runs #BlogChat, which I should probably contribute to more — about “clean” and “dirty” conversations in the marketing space. Before you excited and think some brand is gonna start… Continue Reading
I wrote about this case once before. The first time I wrote about it (click that link if you want to read it), I speculated that Dustin Blackwell was the potential suspect — just based on stuff I had been reading… Continue Reading
Watch that video if you get a chance. I watched it last night. It’s not bad, albeit kind of depressing. Basically it talks about the workforce crisis we have coming down the pike — 2030 or so — and then… Continue Reading
To a certain extent, all advertising is/was/always will be a junk science, but the facts you hear about how much money gets poured into TV (“old-school”) vs. digital (“new-school”) is stunning. To wit, check this out: 4. The average adult… Continue Reading
I’ve been having a hard time figuring out my purpose lately. I know purpose is kind of one-of-those-words-no-one-really-understands — and then some thought leader tells a company to define it, and they do an even worse job — but I… Continue Reading
Here are the basics of the newest Facebook algorithm: The first update will improve the experience for people who do not have a lot of content available to see. Previously, there was a rule that you would not see multiple… Continue Reading
I’m turning 35 this fall and I’ve never really even been a manager anywhere — depressing — so I don’t know very much about what tends to get people promoted, honestly. I’ve observed the promotions of other people, and I think it has… Continue Reading