Good managers are super rare. 82 percent of manager hires end up being the wrong one. (Whoa.) Here’s why (kinda).
People are staggeringly bad at managing others. Can we fix that? Continue Reading
Communication
Employee engagement and the Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report: What can we learn?
I’m writing this at the intersection point of a couple of different aspects of my life: 1. A few years ago, I went to graduate school to focus on organizational development/behavior and employee engagement. I was interested in these topics because… Continue Reading
Oh look, Peter Lanza has begun speaking to the media
Peter Lanza — the father of Adam Lanza and the ex-husband of Nancy Lanza — has stayed out of the media (for the most part) since December 2012 and the Sandy Hook shootings. He’s now in the media — although hopefully it’s… Continue Reading
PBR and hipsters: maybe the best marketing is to avoid the big marketing, eh?
Check out that chart above, by way of Quartz here. PBR — which essentially barely advertises — is literally crushing the major light-beer brands, most of whom spend millions advertising. That makes no sense, though — right? We take these MBAs and we pay… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: what percentage of conversation in a given day is transactional/small talk?
Last night I was in this class, and there were eight full-time faculty members in the class to evaluate some presentations we had done, and prior to the class actually commencing there was pizza and much merriment (and some nerves… Continue Reading
Lao Tzu, the quest for organic communication at work, and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please stop proposing newsletters
Some backstory: I’m in this class right now about employee engagement. It’s a pretty interesting class for the most part, although it can get sidetracked with a lot of millennial vs. Boomer and OMG what does it all mean discussions, but I… Continue Reading
What’s up with the over-use and obsession on acronyms in American business and professional culture?
I take business school classes right now, and b-school students notoriously love the acronym, so some of these examples I’m going to delightfully pepper throughout this post are probably irrelevant to the broader world, but eh … you win some,… Continue Reading
Is The Big Chill the best ‘friends-reuniting’ movie of all-time?
In a potential low point for me, I watched the above movie — alternatively titled The Wedding Weekend or Shut Up And Sing — on Amazon Prime Video a couple of nights ago. Basic plot is that the guy from Royal Pains on USA Network gets… Continue Reading