Sitemap - 2018 - What Is Even Happening?
Guest Post: Are robots legit going to take over the workforce?
It's perfectly OK to feel like shit at the holidays
If a call or meeting is meaningless, kill the damn thing
Shouldn't people have insight into the decisions that affect them?
Take your work productivity more seriously than you do
The real reasons why the hiring manager-recruiter relationship often sucks
Work and life: Get the building blocks right first
Work problem: Academic research typically sneered at
Laugh a little at work, ya tight ass
What if we thought of getting fired as a good thing?
That time I yelled at some women in a bar about how many kids they had
When outcome matters, competence > likability
Is The American Dream even really a thing anymore?
Deny toxic masculinity and you're part of the problem
How much "marketing collateral" do you think sales really uses?
The greatest potential of cloud gets utterly ignored
Amanda Peterson - 2018-10-29 07:59:17
Six things a leader should actually be doing
Cathern Geesman - 2018-10-24 16:34:36
Most people you meet won't be that self-aware
Decades later, most managers still don't know what "delegation" is at all
"That's just another thing for me to manage"
Kara Black - 2018-10-17 16:41:38
The humble/ambitious conundrum
Rick DeLisi - 2018-10-13 21:06:24
What we don't discuss is that you also divorce the friends
The way we present ideas at work is pretty flawed
We need a more modern definition of masculinity
Steven McFarland - 2018-10-03 13:11:01
Your competitors aren't really the problem
The familial vs. broader society disconnect
Don't get trapped in reactive mode
The flummoxing world of corporate vocabulary
"Candidate experience" is a buzzword. Being real with people is not.
Executives need to be onboarded better
You can't just rush headlong into building a team
Stop promoting project managers to lead people
Motive determines performance (managers need to "get" this)
Your whole life will probably shift in two years, and that's OK
I'm running a half-marathon this weekend and I'm utterly unprepared for it
Wrong but prevalent attitude: "It's gotta make money immediately"
"You're going to get fired in three months."
So, are modern manager-employee relationships akin to slavery?
Breaking news: Companies do not respect HR as a function
The bottom line on most stuff: people prioritize what they want to prioritize
Managers think they're "coaching" when they're actually micro-managing
We need to focus on the other type of "inclusion" too
What would actually make someplace a good place to work?
Why process, while good, can frequently destroy teams
ron cavallaro - 2018-08-06 10:44:27
One rule to get you better at conversations
182 months later, it's the same water
20 minutes a day, or start thinking of your career as a pipeline
Mathew Webcontentzone - 2018-07-26 22:55:04
"We don't reward people for admitting they are wrong"
The "always on" work model is compensated slavery
Know how to explain what you do in 1-2 sentences
People should end emails with "Let me know how I could make any of this easier"
Work isn't where to turn looking for appreciation
Cara Denise Canlom - 2018-07-17 19:44:10
Work issue: Moral vs. material goods
Four years, two lives, one realization
If you're not raising wages, can you really complain about a "skills gap?"
Senior leadership teams spend way too much time with each other
Short-term outcomes vs. long-term commitment
The three styles of management (they're not all good)
Your inbox is usually OTHER people's agendas, not yours
Business transformation usually fails because it ignores psychology
Being busy is more important than being strategic at many jobs
The low-credibility feedback problem
The 90-day employee retention problem
Meet with new employees during their first week (please)
"The most powerful business asset on Earth"
Be honest about what you need from a new hire
The Baby Boomer exodus and its leadership development problem
Why does work always need to be about tasks?
Urinoff Jacob - 2018-06-06 01:19:40
The problem of the overworked boss: He/she is not fair
We ignore this aspect of "women in tech" because it allows bros to be bros
2 out of 3 people don't know what they're even supposed to be doing at work
Dianna Howell - 2018-05-29 08:21:18
What matters is the moment AFTER the moment
Move recruiting from HR to business development
A partial list of why people throw themselves on the cross at work
"Complaining about work" is more at scale than "being productive at work"
I graduated college 15 years ago. A lot of shit's changed.
Beware "creating shareholder value" as an expression
Lisa Fleming - 2018-05-15 11:03:20
Networking sucks and is largely pointless too
What if decisiveness is actually a bad trait in managers?
Is the next 'white flight' going to be about cost of living? (Is it already?)
Improve the world by ending emails this way
Wait, isn't ageism paradoxical to making the most money possible?
Understand global unemployment: The 214M and/or 7% problem
Corporations don't use the word "empathy" the way it's meant to be used
Friendship at work is much more of a nuanced issue than we admit
The curiosity - turnover - innovation problem
Men shouldn't be agreeable at work. Now think on the repercussions of that.
Stop attending services at The Temple of Deadlines
If you're going to write blogs, please have something to actually say
Keep your best people: 15-70-15
What if your company's processes and tools aren't making you any more productive at all?
You'll never solve the silo issue, but this research might help
Your logo matters significantly less than you think it does
Meetings suck when it's just everyone listing their to-do lists. Here's a better way!
All managers do is email and go to meetings, sadly
Why would tech companies even need marketing departments?
Your career sucks because you lack self-awareness
Do senior company executives even know what "strategy" is?
Here's a halfway decent definition of "corporate culture"
Easter and all the rest: You gotta live it
Absentee managers are "the silent killer" of companies
The 'Metric Era' is demoralizing
Be more honest about why you job-hopped
Age-wise, 30 to 35 is where lives will get divergent
Guest Post: Is "blind" the future of hiring/recruiting?
Is the workplace now "shockingly inhumane?"
Is burnout at work all because of perceived incompetence of others?
How are managers allowed to avoid conversations by saying "it might be awkward?"
Stop hiding behind lies about how busy you are
"Hire three top performers, pay 'em like 8, get the result of 10."
Don't try to get happier. Change your environment.
Onboarding and off-sites need to be more spaced out
What if corporate execs actually used terms that meant something?
The experience needs to matter
Reality check: Consistently revising something might make it worse, actually
You want to change anything? Put aside the BS and over-communicate.
How you communicate love/value is about how the OTHER person needs it
What if we start considering vulnerability as a strength?
Life gets a lot easier when you realize how many people are full of shit
What's holding back "the era of data" is who gets to "own" it
The misconception that crushes productivity
Work: Pay less attention to "cultural fit," more attention to "enculturability"
Stop thinking of business relationships as purely transactional
Are gender dynamics so skewed because men are terrified of women?
Did modernity kill contemplation?
Stop asking boring questions when you meet new people
The complex picture around pride at work
Ironically, a quest for perfection will likely destroy us
Future of work: "Mindsets and behaviors must be changed"
We are really confused about what "leadership" is
January and February are productivity graveyards
The best employees are good running backs
The "Attention Economy" is a bubble
Life is random, or how The Butterfly Effect finds us all
Entry interviews, not exit interviews
A dog walk, a baby, frosh year of college: These things can fix onboarding
How do we foster trust in new ideas?
We really need to stop deifying Silicon Valley