Weekly Thoughts

Elevate your week with thought-provoking perspectives aimed at enriching both you and your workplace.

Student Protests

Student Protests

I was talking to a pastor that works for a large urban police department that's currently experiencing protests at universities. And I was asking...

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Non-Compete Agreements

Non-Compete Agreements

I was working with a client last week and found a fairly toxic dynamic happening within the organization. And I was speaking one -on -one with a...

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Cascading Goals

Cascading Goals

If you're a leader at a big company, you probably know about cascading goals. The executives at the top of the organization come up with the big...

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AI Future of Work

AI Future of Work

Anyone who says they know what AI is going to do to the future of work is lying. I've been talking to AI experts in an effort to get more educated...

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Pay Transparency

Pay Transparency

Really interesting insights in Josh Burson's 2023 definitive guide to pay equity. What does it show? That pay equity is seven times more correlated...

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Business Leaders

Business Leaders

Expectations on business leaders are higher than they ever have been. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, young people today do not trust...

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Take Five

Take Five

Believe it or not, companies with better culture make less emotional compensation decisions. When you have a weak culture and you're desperate to...

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Bad Vibes Economy

Bad Vibes Economy

Economists are perplexed at the bad vibes economy. What the data says about how we're doing is not aligned with what public sentiment is right now,...

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Talk About Missed Deadlines

Talk About Missed Deadlines

Here is one very simple tool that you can use to go from being a B player to an A player at work. When you're going to miss a deadline, tell people...

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A Player

A Player

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your culture is let someone go. A players love working with A players and they really don't love working...

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Be The Lion

Be The Lion

Be the work lion. And I'm talking about your work spirit animal. There's lots of different working styles. And my style is the lion style, which I...

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Costco Unionized

Costco Unionized

I've been talking about how unionization is increasing for a while now, and some organizations have figured out how to handle it. Costco just hit a...

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Decline of Return to Office

Decline of Return to Office

Return to office is dead. Thank goodness the wicked witch is dead. The decline in working from home has plateaued in 2023, says a Stanford...

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Above the Line Below the Line

Above the Line Below the Line

Last week, Elon Musk said, go F yourself to a bunch of advertisers. That's not what this post is about, because that's been sensationalized already,...

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Your Title is Not Your Job

Your Title is Not Your Job

One of the reasons that so many people find it difficult to find meaning in their work today is because they identify with this job title that they...

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