Let’s start with some honesty: if you really want to ever achieve “work-life balance,” you need to come up with a new term for it. Re-brand that shit! Here’s the essential problem: Rank-and-file employees hear that and think “That’s an… Continue Reading
It constantly amazes me that people often don’t know what anyone they work with actually does. Continue Reading
Not breaking news: executives at companies large and small often claim one thing is a priority (words), then their actions make it clear that a totally different thing is the real priority. For example: “talent strategy” is a priority, folks!… Continue Reading
If you knew how to start a project so that people gave you the ol’ “Atta Boy!” for it every time, wouldn’t you use that method? Continue Reading
I had seen that Ricardo Semler TED Talk before and remember thinking it was good, but it wasn’t necessarily one of the TED Talks that stays with you for a long time (at least for me). Then I came across… Continue Reading
Let’s start here: Most managers are not very good at their jobs. Let’s move to here: The “new model” of leadership is supposed to be more geared towards ideas like “empathy” and “coaching.” And now let’s finish here: Much of… Continue Reading
At the end of the day (terrible business buzzword concept, and I’m sorry I opened this post that way), isn’t the goal of a leader to accomplish a specific goal, or specific set of goals? You have deliverables, and you… Continue Reading
People fail at things literally every single second around the world. In the course of whatever day you’re reading this post, you probably failed at something. I’ve failed at something on the day I’m writing this. It’s probably the most… Continue Reading