Try to keep your work friends after you leave (it ain’t easy)
When you leave a job, it’s notoriously hard to remain good friends with ex-coworkers. But damn, you should definitely try. Continue Reading
Leadership
People spend billions of dollars a year, and fly all over the world, to discuss and debate and analyze leadership. But what if it’s simpler than that?
So, what’s it like to get married a second time, eh?
I got married the first time on March 16, 2013. The second time was October 17, 2020. What does one learn and feel on a second? Continue Reading
WFH is basically class warfare, even if we avoid the topic
We can talk forever and a day about work from home and when it might return, but let’s first acknowledge the inequality herein. Continue Reading
The modern moment: “You have no dignity.” “Um, you’ve never met or spoken to me.”
Someone told me in a Twitter thread last night that I “lack dignity.” The person and I have never met or spoken. Is this modern comms? Continue Reading
The managerial fear button and punished vulnerability
Managers have a lot on their plates, and often “motivating or building your team” falls to their last priority. Enter fear as a “strategy.” Continue Reading
The abandonment of adult friendships
It’s sad when once-relevant friendships end over things that aren’t relevant, and that seems common in Internet-fighting modernity. Continue Reading
That whole Katrina Kibben situation
Katrina Kibben, a good gal in that ol’ HR world, likes to preach inclusion while anonymously dragging people for LinkedIn jokes. How’s that work? Continue Reading
So, so many KPIs are completely meaningless
There are core things that matter in a specific business, and core things the executives track … and those are NOT always the public KPIs. Continue Reading