Sitemap - 2019 - What Is Even Happening?
Work burnout sucks, yes. It's not a "crisis," though.
Being broke at the holidays is fucking tedious
The "job market" really runs about ages 17-34
Why do we keep saying "content is king?" That's a lie.
The Blunder Years, Episode 17: Listening vs. fixing in relationships and getting tapped out
Gabija Grusaite - 2019-12-16 03:48:16
Gabija Grusaite - 2019-12-16 03:06:00
C'mon now. Can a company really put people over money?
Recruiters need to stop f*cking ghosting people. It's unprofessional.
2020 and beyond: The haves vs. the have-nots
The Blunder Years, Episode 16: "I'm not doing as well as so-and-so" (+ gender reveals, exes, more)
Debbie Finkelstein - 2019-12-04 11:53:52
Wouldn't "tech ethics" hurt your retirement planning?
America is about getting your nut
The Blunder Years, Episode 15: How to mess up your 30s (and how to get it back)
Stop telling me to bring my passion to work, because dude, I don't want to get fired
The Blunder Years, Episode 14: Your 20s are a hot mess, but it's better by your 40s!
The Blunder Years, Episode 13: Are you the average of the five people you spend the most time with?
Income inequality and virtue-signaling
Senior leaders are out of touch. But why wouldn't they be, honestly?
The Blunder Years, Episode 12: Career vs. self and the trade-off of adulthood
"Let's start this meeting with some stories about peeing on yourself."
Hey Boss Man, it really is OK to appreciate employees
The Blunder Years, Episode 11: Is work even psychologically safe?
Stop deifying Steve Jobs and other assholes. It clouds the picture of leadership.
The Blunder Years, Episode 10: Why does work distract us from what really matters?
The Blunder Years, Episode 9: Spilling that real tea on work and HR
What we really need is employee DISengagement
The Blunder Years, Episode 8: Nine beers in a day to a focus on health
So, when do we think hiring ageism now begins?
The Blunder Years, Episode 7: Aging parents + "Everybody is nuts"
Crawling towards 39, mostly pathetic, and trying to get to a place I'm proud of
The Blunder Years, Episode 6: Five-year plans, North Stars, and Instagram likes
The Blunder Years, Episode 5: The Encouragement Engineer and the "reality of life kicking in"
Yea, uh, sorry Bill, but no one in this office actually cares about that thing
The Blunder Years, Episode 4: From gun in mouth to human growth
For this whole "data revolution" to work, we need to remove the fear from it
Onyeka Ndukwe - 2019-10-02 10:43:12
Onyeka Ndukwe - 2019-10-02 10:43:10
Ah, look, another HR Tech conference where nothing actually changes...
The Blunder Years, Episode 3: "It's easy to wake up in your 30s and think you have no friends"
Blunder Years, Episode 2: Miscarriages, motherhood, long-term sexuality
You can drive a Mack Truck through senior leadership double talk
Blunder Years, Episode 1: "Existential Adriftness"
We have a hard time solving the flexible work issue because people are idiots
Safety-inclined vs. growth-inclined
Guest Post: The broken ideas we should abandon
The Blunder Years Podcast: The Intro
Companies do not value you as much as you may think
Podcast coming in a few weeks: "The Blunder Years"
Why would execs care about organizational trust if the legacy widget is still selling?
Business journalism is increasingly such trash
AI won't save HR stuff, and might actually regress it
Compensation is the sex of the working world
Guest Post: Managing student loan debt
"Delight the customer" is meaningless drivel, not a "strategic objective"
Leona Jones - 2019-08-29 03:59:22
Guest Post: Blogging for beginners
Stop hiring, and promoting, assholes and incompetent people into management
Man, this CEO pledge is some trite bullshit, eh?
leendert - 2019-08-21 13:45:41
Are we "Post-Expertise" now? And did LinkedIn help destroy the term?
The hysterical irony of AI (and the tyranny of small decisions)
We way, way, way over-complicate why people leave jobs
Isn't a better work-anywhere policy just basic common sense?
Feels like most of us forgot how to actually debate each other
We need to really, really stop ignoring loneliness as a topic
And again, we waste so much time discussing generational differences at work...
When your boss sucks, everyone knows it, everyone talks with each other about it, but ...
Yo, um, uh, er, ahem, well ... we about to have a Gen X work problem, guys
The leadership assessment vacuum
Nothing external fixes you until you fix yourself
The issue of incomplete information at work
"They're just doing their job"
The ecosystem of mistakes being made at work
Diversity training: Too often, it feels like a PR stunt
Logically, aren't most businesses/industries going to be referral-driven?
Consultants, surveys, and workshops, OH MY!
Let's talk more openly about dudes getting depressed
David J Rothstein - 2019-06-18 18:25:43
"Bring your whole self to work?" LOL, that's horrific advice.
Andrea Dale - 2019-06-11 13:07:48
Why don't we discuss "manager engagement" or "manager experience?"
Sheldon White - 2019-06-06 05:22:09
"Emotion is integral to getting our work done." LOL, do managers know that?
So what exactly would you say "employee engagement" really is?
Is the whole "A-Player" discussion morally bankrupt?
What holds hiring back is a quest for human relevance
Learning is often such a crock of shit in companies
The summer of personal accountability
How could everyone's feedback possibly matter?
The real question is how you bring someone onto a team
Leaders only think about disruption in terms of tech. That's a problem.
People don't care as much about stuff as we think they do
Why your boss ignores your ideas
What exactly is the point of a performance review, honestly?
About 95% of deadlines can be adjusted
Diversity and inclusion and ... belonging?
Solo brainstorming and idea-stripping (oh my)
"Wishful thinking rather than accurate self-assessment"
Most valued skill of modern age: Resilience vs. listening to those opposite you
How the Houston Astros seem to randomly explain my life (good and bad)
The paradox of the modern age is within busyness
What about conversational email marketing?
Why do we think software can solve people issues?
Fuck foosball and tacos and just respect me and let me grow (oh and health insurance)
So what happens when it feels like it's loss after loss after loss?
What if everything we know about time management is wrong?
Corporate vocabulary: When words mean everything, they then mean nothing
A quick note on all this "workplace ghosting" stuff
"65 hours a week? I remember my first part-time job!"
We want "The Glassdoor Effect" to be real, but it's not
Kelly Festa - 2019-01-25 09:39:49
Sunav Choudhary - 2019-01-25 01:57:35
Stop flexing strengths as a leader. Be human.
Of course initiatives rarely have impact at work, because...
The bystander effect in organizations
The Spring Training problem of HR thinking
Let's talk about having a healthy relationship with alcohol for a second
Higher education seems to be a problem now
How did Dostoevsky say you destroy a prisoner psychologically?