Let’s end the ‘schedule a call’ culture
“Hop on a call this week?” 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?
Leadership pipeline: Let’s get it right
Let’s stop with the bluster, BS, and excuses. Continue Reading
Meaningful jobs: What factors do we need?
Nice new research from MIT here. Continue Reading
“I hate my boss:” The anthropological reason
It’s not just “He/she is a wanker” or “He/she doesn’t respect me.” (That’s part of it.) It’s deeper into the human condition than that, though. Continue Reading
The attention to detail paradox
If you’re hitting your real targets, your “attention to detail” can be sloppy as hell. But if your boss doesn’t like you, this will keep you in a box. Continue Reading
The gravest meeting planning sin
Gotta respect time like you respect money, honey. Continue Reading
Being patient at work is friggin’ crucial
A world without hair-on-fire, competing-priority, sense of urgency BS in every project. Continue Reading
A bad employee? There’s no such thing.
We train managers to think of complex, variable issues in very black-and-white (“Send him to HR!”) terms, and that’s a problem. Continue Reading