“Without humility, you are unable to learn.” This is a message to managers in businesses.

Let’s say you really like football, up to the point that you consider the best football players to be “warriors” and the like. You view the whole thing as a complex allegory for war, so the most successful coaches are… Continue Reading

Salary.com survey: 54 percent of people are “happy at work,” yet 23 percent of people look for a new job “every single day.” Wait, what?

There are employee engagement survey things almost every day — I’ve written about a ton of them over the time I’ve had this blog — and there’s a new-ish one now from Salary.com. You can click through it — it’s done as… Continue Reading

Damn, North Dakota: from 2010 to 2013, 940 new jobs per 10,000 people. Next highest in the U.S.? 337 new jobs per 10K people.

Say it with me now: the twin engines of present-day American job growth are knowledge and energy. We’ve talked about this before (with a little more context here), and now theres’s some new data via Atlantic Cities essentially underscoring the idea. Look at this chart:   The… Continue Reading

Jack Dorsey (from Twitter, Square) sent this e-mail in 2012 about authority and merit. People should take it as corporate gospel.

You may have seen this already — if not, here’s what happened. Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and is now running things at Square (that little thing on top of iPads that you can swipe your credit card through, for… Continue Reading

Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?

Are you doing something that really moves the org forward, or are you there to represent how fast the place is growing? Continue Reading

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Results-Only Work Environment, or ROWE, should be the wave of the future. The problem? Often, employees are treated like children.

There’s a long article on Slate from over the weekend — I think it’s one of their most popular and most shared, all that — about ROWE, or Results-Only Work Environment. Here’s the article. I’ve written about this kind of stuff a ton… Continue Reading

Is entrepreneurship dying? And if so, is one reason (aside from the economy) the general distaste for bureaucracy in an entrepreneurial culture?

If you really think about, one of the most tangible selling points of America — one that you’ll hear bantered about quite often — is the idea of “entrepreneurial spirit.” This ties back to the American Dream; it’s the concept… Continue Reading

The inherent contradiction involved in LinkedIn’s new content marketing score is going to make the idea of employee engagement more important than ever

This is an interesting little sequence of events here. Follow along: 1. LinkedIn is much better at sending traffic back to your homepage — and thus potential leads — than Facebook or Twitter are. Remember: people go on Facebook to stalk… Continue Reading