Here’s a new way to start work projects
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Management
WTF? Average CMO tenure is only 48 months? 23 percent of top jobs are open annually?
Here’s an article with a ton of buzzwords that reads like a catalog of CMOs who have been promoted in recent years; it’s actually really hard to get through without gagging or trying to smash your computer into 48 pieces… Continue Reading
How about this meetings-open-with-a-memo idea, eh?
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”
This is a concept that doesn’t really exist. Why do we discuss it like it does? Continue Reading
Asking questions: Less accusatory, more empowering
If you really stop and think about it for a few seconds, the whole idea of “asking good questions” is really important to (a) society and (b) work. (“Relationships” would fit here too.) No one knows everything — although there… Continue Reading
Do these five things well and you’ll make money and keep your best people
This is a great post by Josh Bersin at Forbes if you’re the type of person who believes in employee engagement and the development of corporate culture, which you might not be. (This might be your attitude.) I recommend you… Continue Reading
Your team has no self-awareness, and that’s why they don’t get projects done
Actually thinking for a second about what you do and why you do it — rather than just headlong racing into it — can actually make a huge difference in your success (even to teams believe this stuff is a “soft skill”). Continue Reading
Management advice: Tell people what you want done, not how to do it
Was scrolling through Forbes this morning and came across this article, which is predominantly about Sheryl Sandberg trying to ban the word “bossy” from business discourse. I personally have really mixed feelings about Sheryl Sandberg (more on that at another… Continue Reading