Employee-manager relationship: challenging. Work: inherent clusterfuck much of the time. Reasons for this: numerous. Some reasons are even rooted in science! Here’s one: “[The brain’s] need [to survive] focuses attention on the sources of danger and on trying to predict where the next… Continue Reading
Watch that video if you get a chance. I watched it last night. It’s not bad, albeit kind of depressing. Basically it talks about the workforce crisis we have coming down the pike — 2030 or so — and then… Continue Reading
People filled out surveys about their boss and often put “please retire or quit.” That’s not good. Continue Reading
I’m turning 35 this fall and I’ve never really even been a manager anywhere — depressing — so I don’t know very much about what tends to get people promoted, honestly. I’ve observed the promotions of other people, and I think it has… Continue Reading
The absolute No. 1 thing that gets the lowest scores on any employee survey, almost regardless of industry and context, is communication. This makes perfect sense: humans are flawed beings, they often want things they can’t explain properly, they often enter… Continue Reading
Personally think the biggest two issues of the next 50-100 years are probably (a) drought and (b) inequality, with a potential (c) choice of “automating every job possible to chase profits, thus creating a world where no one can really… Continue Reading
One of the things I hate hearing the most at any job I’ve ever had is that something happened a certain way — a half-assed way — because people had to “get it out the door.” This is what I… Continue Reading
Want to count the ways that e-mail is awful? Sure, let’s do that. It’s probably the biggest time-suck of the modern age. Even though it’s really easy to solve many work issues with a 5-minute convo, it always becomes a… Continue Reading