The New Business: RIP, Product and Inventory

RIP Inventory and Product

This shit may blow your mind. Consider: Uber is the world’s largest taxi company. It doesn’t own any vehicles. Facebook is the world’s largest media company. It doesn’t produce any of its own content. Alibaba is the world’s most valuable… Continue Reading

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The Four Horsemen Of The Work Apocalypse Are…

Four Horsemen of The Bad Stuff

Four aspects ruin work (and relationships, honestly) for people more than any other. What are they? Continue Reading

If you want to be a successful leader, ask for feedback

Feedback is a boondoggle concept for a lot of people; it’s another one of those things that supposedly will be ushered into the mainstream with the advent of millennials in the workforce, although no one is entirely sure. Right now, you… Continue Reading

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Ah, look. Another leadership study. What can we learn?

Damn, leadership. You scary. (Family Guy reference.) Everybody seems to chase it, and everybody wants to be good at it, and there’s this belief that maybe in the coming generations the idea of being “a good leader” will actually have… Continue Reading

Here’s a new way to start work projects

Stop and think for a second, sir. Continue Reading

How about this meetings-open-with-a-memo idea, eh?

Amazon Meetings And Memos Before Meetings

Cool article here on “extroverted leadership.” You say “extroverted leadership” to a random rank-and-file at a company, and they probably will instantly quote you their fucking Meyers-Briggs four-letter combo. (Pavlovian.) In reality, though, introverts and extroverts and the interplay of the… Continue Reading

Please stop writing articles about “hiring with intention”

Hiring With Intention Doesn't Exist

This is a concept that doesn’t really exist. Why do we discuss it like it does? Continue Reading