I’ve been trying to use this blog to tell a few more personal stories of late — because those seem to resonate more with people than simply writing about employee engagement or city planning or true crime or whatever else… Continue Reading
If you stopped and thought about the general (because every situation is unique) relationship between employees and their managers, you might honestly think each side was speaking a different language: maybe the employee is coming to work and doing their day-to-day tasks… Continue Reading
You may have seen a little bit around Google+ in the last few days; Chris Messina, who was a developer advocate and UX designer on the product, wrote this article for Medium. It essentially goes into some of the pros… Continue Reading
Here’s the deal: Thanksgiving can be an emotionally-misguided time. Drama emerges, things are said, etc, etc. We’ve all been there. (I honestly think it’s either that or small talk. There’s no middle ground.) Can it be avoided? Sure. You can… Continue Reading
Alright, let’s start off with a couple of basics. Hopefully most people understand that: Meetings aren’t work; they’re a way of talking about work. Meetings are a gigantic time suck. Often the wrong people come to the meetings, the right people don’t,… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure/benefit of going to Belgium for work — and when I came back, I had the pleasure/benefit (in a much different way) of meeting a Medtronic sales guy at a bar in… Continue Reading
We know, from some form of research, that human attention span has decreased over time — and we know that the average time someone reads an e-mail is about 30 seconds before they kind of lose the task/focus associated with it. 30… Continue Reading
There are essentially four models for human social interaction, according to some: communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. That seems a little bit like academic speak, so let’s break it down into more manageable categories. In terms… Continue Reading