Business Culture: Understand reaction vs. response

Business Culture

A good workplace isn’t made by kegerators and ping-pong tables. It’s much more about your front-line managers understanding thoughtful response as opposed to hair-on-fire reaction. Continue Reading

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The approval process vortex

Approval Process

Ah, the old ‘hurry up and wait’ world. Continue Reading

Motivated reasoning makes work annoying

Motivated Reasoning

Unconscious motivations driving information-processing, eh? This will end well with most managers. Continue Reading

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Branding strategies: Many marketers are clueless here

Branding Strategies

Stop screeching about ‘branding strategies’ in all-hands meetings when, in fact, you just want to talk about process and guidelines. They’re very different things. Continue Reading

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Why your decision-making process is skewed

Decision-making process

Most companies (and individual senior leaders) have terrible decision-making processes in place. They often focus short-term, chase shiny pennies, and a host of other things. Why is this? How can it get better? Continue Reading

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The ‘We’re so understaffed’ myth

Understaffed

Your company’s probably NOT actually understaffed. You probably are just using the people you do have incorrectly, or letting them skate on true responsibilities. Continue Reading

Has employee loyalty finally died?

Employee Loyalty

You’d reckon the answer is yes (for many people). But why? And what does it mean? And how can companies react and maybe get a strategic advantage back from it? Continue Reading

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End the deification of the workaholic

Workaholic

The workaholic culture will never end, and especially among males — but we can at least reduce the ways we deify it and treat it as vain-glorious, no? Continue Reading