Larry Page wasn’t necessarily wrong on the “people shouldn’t have to work full-time” thing

There has been heat in the press for some of Larry Page’s comments at this Khosla Ventures “Fireside Chat” recently. You can read all about it here, but essentially, here’s what the Google co-founder said: “If you really think about… Continue Reading

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Can we all please stop talking about how much we’re multitasking? The concept is basically a myth.

It doesn’t really exist. Continue Reading

What can a chef teach a businessman?

From an article that’s been popular on Harvard Business Review for the past week (and yet, depressingly, I feel no one with an office job will actually follow the advice of): If you’re working in the kitchen of Anthony Bourdain, legendary chef… Continue Reading

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There was B2B, and B2C. Now people are discussing H2H, or human-to-human. Is this legit, or just more buzzwords?

A lot of people on LinkedIn recently have been sharing different memes / blackboards / content around the idea of “H2H” marketing — meaning “human to human,” as opposed to the conventional ideas in the space, which have long included… Continue Reading

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Experience may mean very little when choosing leadership

There’s a whole culture in business / hiring around development vs. poaching. The idea is rooted in the belief that, if you have an open position and 3-4 internals who can fill it, you should still look elsewhere. Part of that is… Continue Reading

Maybe it is time to split Human Resources into two or three distinct areas

I had a lot of focus on organizational development and base HR practices in graduate school, and as such, I write about it a lot. For a long time now, I’ve been thinking that HR is handled wrong in most mid-size… Continue Reading

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Why aren’t direct job goals discussed more during the first-day/first-week onboarding process?

It might be time for an overhaul of the “onboarding” process at most organizations. Continue Reading

On health care, patient engagement, and social physics

Last summer, I worked for a pretty large health care organization in between my two years of graduate school. My primary focus/assignment was on fixing the Intranet for one business unit of this organization — made sense, because my background… Continue Reading