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Overwork is bad for you — and your company

I’m fully of the belief that 55 hours of work/week is a hard ceiling, but I also know a ton of people I’ve worked with over my life who run around screaming about headcount, bandwith, and deliverables with their hair… Continue Reading

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When we force employees to be inauthentic, that hurts employee engagement

I’m personally of the belief that one of the only things we really have in this social media-leaning, go-go-go world of 2015 is our emotions, and yet, no one really talks about those as much as they should. (Sad.) Here’s a completely… Continue Reading

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The three types of workplace fear

Here’s an article about passive aggressiveness at work (which is something that ideally would have ended in the 1400s), and the author brings up an interesting point near the end. There are essentially three types of fear at work (there are… Continue Reading

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Start by trying to understand what your salary represents

Lest you think I’m going to arrive here throwing turds and/or grenades at corporate pay structures, let’s start by covering off on one thing: I actually took a graduate-level compensation class in, well, graduate school … and I got an… Continue Reading

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How To Be More Productive At Work: Eat your frogs in the AM (not literally)

Here’s a solid-ish quote from Mark Twain: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Anyone with a brain in their head would realize this was eventually… Continue Reading

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Referral is still the king of lead generation marketing

I personally feel we should ban the term “lead generation” from marketing and sales discussions, but really … who the hell am I? Many companies try to set up their website or general marketing/sales funnel to “optimize” (buzzword hell) for… Continue Reading

How about relationships before revenue?

I’ve worked a lot of different places, and had a lot of different bosses, and observed a lot of different senior management teams (and been friends with quite a few), and most of them focus on revenue (and/or growth) first and foremost. This… Continue Reading

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I volunteered at a kids’ carnival and learned a lot about how adults work

I got back from a week in Las Vegas – which is a long time to be there – on Friday night around 11pm. I hung out with my wife for a while, as I barely remembered what she looked like at… Continue Reading