The Blunder Years, Episode 11: Is work even psychologically safe?
When work is all-consuming or all-encompassing for a person, what might happen to them if they get laid off or the company fades away? Continue Reading
Future of Work
Stop deifying Steve Jobs and other assholes. It clouds the picture of leadership.
You can be a good person and still scale a business. Thousands have done it. Maybe we should write more stories about them. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 10: Why does work distract us from what really matters?
Work at 24 is actually kind of vaguely exciting and interesting. Work at 34? Uh, not nearly as much. Let’s discuss this more. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 9: Spilling that real tea on work and HR
It ain’t always pretty out there. Let’s actually have a real conversation about it, shall we? Continue Reading
What we really need is employee DISengagement
We’ve been barking up the wrong tree on “employee engagement” for a decade, so here’s a new curveball. Continue Reading
So, when do we think hiring ageism now begins?
Basically, what we do is lie to candidates (and the broader market) about what actually matters to us as employers. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 5: The Encouragement Engineer and the “reality of life kicking in”
Work-life balance, losing parents and losing kids, not being able to give 110 percent at work anymore, and the “value chasm” of individuals. Continue Reading
Yea, uh, sorry Bill, but no one in this office actually cares about that thing
Everything in some organizations can feel important and urgent and “I needed this yesterday.” A lot of that is just BS. Continue Reading