Here’s what we know so far: 430 million vacation days are left on the table by U.S. residents each year. Everyone always claims they “can’t” take a vacation because of “so much work” (the work will be there anyway) Seriously,… Continue Reading
Work automation is coming, baby! The highest numbers you’ll see in various articles are close to 50 percent — meaning 1 in 2 jobs could be automated someday. That’s a whole thing, no? Today, Fast Company has an article about “What Work Will… Continue Reading
Last week, I flew from Toronto to Vancouver for work; that’s a deceptively-long flight and, in the process, I got to read the magazine of Rotman (University of Toronto) business school. It’s actually really good — bordering on excellent, honestly —… Continue Reading
Good article here from the team behind Decker Communications. Let’s start with an essentially-important pull-quote, shall we? The corporate communications team had already been churning out emails highlighting new expense procedures, sales process changes, escalation flows, etc., but this wouldn’t engage… Continue Reading
Glassdoor came out with one of those “Best Cities For Jobs” reports recently, and then Fast Company went and deep-dove on it. Let’s actually start with the chart of the top 25 or so cities, because I feel that would be a helpful… Continue Reading
Probably an unnecessary post, but for anyone that follows this blog and may have vaguely missed me … I’ve been out of the WordPress pocket for a week or so, because I was on a work trip in Canada. I’m… Continue Reading
The No. 1 brand in the entire world isn’t Apple, or Exxon, or Google, or anything like that … it’s motherhood. That’s the most tied up in “should-be good” feelings, the future of our world, and everything that we’re taught is… Continue Reading
From here, which is in turn from here, comes this chart: Pretty hard to look at that and argue whites and blacks have the same experience in this country; 2,207 per 100,000 African-Americans in America are in jail. That’s 2.2… Continue Reading