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Ethics, social media, and platitudes

Platitudes

If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post.  A couple of days ago, I saw some ridiculous photo on Facebook of a work team that looked… Continue Reading

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E-Mail is just a representation of the power structure of your organization

EMail is just a form of hierarchy

If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post.  Before we get into this, let’s just be clear up front: e-mail is probably one of the worst… Continue Reading

2016 goal: Text 3-5 of your friends every morning, just because

Show your friends gratitude every day

If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post.  I’m on this kick of setting 2016 goals — yesterday I came up with one about networking —… Continue Reading

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An achievable 2016 networking goal

Dunbar's Number and 2016 Networking

If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post.  I actually moved to Texas on July 14, 2014. Prior to that, my wife and I were living… Continue Reading

A day-by-day guide to managing your time at work

Day By Day Guide to Planning Out Work

One major thing we get wrong: work isn’t about tasks and targets. It’s about energy. There’s only a fraction of the day (honestly) that you’ll be really successful at those tasks and targets, and you need to figure out how to maximize it.… Continue Reading

The 9 types of employee you can be

If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post.  There’s a company called Virtuali that helps companies ‘develop and retain millennial leaders,’ which is a phrase that might… Continue Reading

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The first step of employee advocacy is the hardest one

The first step towards employee advocacy

Most places I’ve ever worked have no real idea what ’employee advocacy’ even is, so maybe we should begin there. It basically refers to the promotion of an organization’s brand by its employees, potentially (largely) on social media. This allows… Continue Reading

3 years since Sandy Hook, and things are worse. Wow.

3 Years Since Sandy Hook

Out of all the mass shootings, if you were callously sit down and rank them (I wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing this, no), Sandy Hook might be the worst. A loss of life is a loss of life wherever it happens,… Continue Reading