What type of failure might eventually predict success?

Don’t keep reinventing. Continue Reading →

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The Blunder Years, Episode 22: Work self? Personal self? Uh, it’s the same self.

A conversation between Vadim Lieberman and I on all sorts o various crap, including authenticity and feedback. Continue Reading →

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When your boss sucks, everyone knows it, everyone talks with each other about it, but …

Stop promoting assholes

The promise, and the peril, of delivering feedback up a chain of command. Continue Reading →

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How could everyone’s feedback possibly matter?

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Why would you listen to and care about the feedback of people who out-rank you if they’ve never shown they care about you at all? Continue Reading →

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The low-credibility feedback problem

Why would you care what a boss who doesn’t seem to care about you says about your work? Continue Reading →

Rewards and recognition programs need some real help

Rewards and recognition

Dirty little secret: most people make money by making other people more money. Continue Reading →

Performance feedback really isn’t as hard as we think

Performance feedback

It’s really amazing how bad most managers are at feedback. Continue Reading →

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Does employee feedback have to be such a train wreck? (No.)

Employee feedback

We all know the buzzwords here. Can we slice through them? Continue Reading →