Top-level executives and managers love the word collaboration. Sometimes it feels like a prevailing attitude can be, “If our teams are just collaborating, all will be well with the world!” Collaboration seems to be a synonym for togetherness in a lot… Continue Reading
If you really distill work — or, frankly, your entire life — down to a couple of core tenets, I would say one you might arrive at is “The ability to develop ideas and present them to others.” That’s the… Continue Reading
One of the most remarkable things to me about the evolution (revolution?) of business in the modern era is this seeming dichotomy: Organizations now strive to get real-time feedback from customers (think social media, tracking tools, etc.) Organizations still basically… Continue Reading
Admittedly I don’t know a ton about economics — I actually got a D in Micro frosh year of college — so I’m not really that strong on all the different indicators of an economy’s health. I can tell you… Continue Reading
Even if you’re a super-busy person with a ton of meetings and deliverables, there’s a good chance you’ve engaged in some workplace gossip at least once in the previous five days. It’s actually very natural; I think once you’ve worked at a… Continue Reading
My man TKaps and I, back in the halcyon days of ESPN, used to have a joke about the word “chat.” The joke wasn’t that funny, but here goes: a “chat” should be a nice thing, right? Like if your… Continue Reading
I hate the term “stretch assignment” conceptually, because it’s pretty much a white whale for a lot of organizations. They talk about it, but no one is really serious about it (except in very forward-thinking organizations): business is mostly set… Continue Reading
From here, observe this graph: