Why meetings are awful
Most gatherings of business teams are utterly devoid of proper context. Here’s why. Continue Reading
Fundamental Explainers
This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
How old and experienced is an average CEO?
In the fall of 2012, I had a semi-interesting conversation with a kid I was going to graduate school with. At the time, I think I was 31; the other person in question was 24. We were both males. The… Continue Reading
Exploring white attitudes on African-Americans in prisons
The whole topic of racial attitudes around incarnation is very fraught — and also very complicated, as entire bodies of research are penned on it across people’s careers. I can’t begin to scratch the surface. I do know this, as… Continue Reading
Beth-Ellen Vinson, Rick Heath, lie detectors and cold cases
The Beth-Ellen Vinson case has been getting some renewed attention lately, 20 years after the disappearance and murder. Here’s what happened: Vinson left her apartment near North Carolina State University around 2:30 a.m. the morning of Aug. 16, 1994, and three… Continue Reading
55 percent of employees are eating during conference calls (and more fun stats)
One of my least-favorite expressions in the cubicle world is “hop on a call.” Anyone that’s been on a series of conference calls knows that they’re pretty off-task affairs, in general: it’s highly probable that over 60 percent of the people… Continue Reading
Is employee engagement tied to revenue?
I’ve written a lot about employee engagement on this blog — such as here and here — because it seems like a major topic of the next few years. Millennials will become the primary part of the workforce, and they… Continue Reading
Kristy Kelly and Joelle Lockwood must be somewhat linked, right?
You’ve probably heard a little bit about this case, but two Indiana-based mothers disappeared within about five weeks of each other this summer. Joelle Lockwood was first — that was back on July 9th, and she was last seen walking… Continue Reading
People really love to deify the internal culture of tech companies
Everyone seems to want to work in Silicon Valley (to some extent). Continue Reading