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A 40-hour work week in 1950 = 11 hours of work in 2015

Take a look at this chart; I got it from here: Here’s the basic way to read that: a 40-hour/week worker in 1950 (far left of the chart) is essentially equivalent to an 11-hour/week worker in 2015. Phrased in a… Continue Reading

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On metrics and honesty

Was bored at work yesterday before a full staff meeting and hopped onto #TChat for the first time ever, which is basically a Twitter chat about people, talent strategy, people analytics, HR metrics, and all that. I’m interested in that… Continue Reading

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What if being happy at work is all just a huge scam?

For people that care about this kind of stuff (**raises hand**), now seems to be kind of a landmark time in the “Intersection Of Happiness And Work” research/execution world. Will Davies wrote an article for The Atlantic in June on… Continue Reading

Remember: mentoring ain’t the same as managing

Could write one million words on this topic — and in the process, bore the hell out of everyone reading — but instead, I’ll take a quote from this Fast Company article and we’ll go from there: You already know… Continue Reading

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Future of Work: Respect is everything

Came across some research from SHRM yesterday; I believe the entire package is called the “2015 Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report.” Here’s the link. There’s a couple of interesting figures in there, notably this bad boy: So … let’s chop this… Continue Reading

How to present better: Get excited

Written about this a bunch of times before, because I think it’s amazing how infrequently we discuss the idea of better, more effective presentations — especially when you consider that if you want to get an idea/point/concept across to someone,… Continue Reading

Instead of rushing to hire, look at your team

I’ve written before about how headcount is destroying business innovation, and I’m not going to recycle the general themes therein for this thing. I’ll actually try to keep it pretty tight. Let’s begin with a personal story. (I was just… Continue Reading

The Shrine of Big Numbers is killing marketing

You can probably figure out what the concept means from the headline. Basically, many people in marketing think about things in terms of the biggest numbers possible, because those are the impressive things you want to report back up a… Continue Reading