Weekly Thoughts
Elevate your week with thought-provoking perspectives aimed at enriching both you and your workplace.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why Is What I Do So Important?
Why is what I do so important? The World Happiness Report just came out and said that the number one driver of people's happiness is the social...
DEI has to be a Part of Culture
I want to read a quote from Regina Lawless who was the head of diversity and inclusion at Instagram. She says, "It's the leaders and every employee...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt Part-3
This is part three in a three part series, looking at a really critical article in the New York Timesfrom Monday, December 4th about the evolution...
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt Part-2
This is part two in a deep dive in an article from The New York Times on Monday, December 4th that was about pharmacists and doctors and how they...
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt Part-1
On Monday of this week, the New York Times published an article called Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are In Revolt. I want to do a three-part series...
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...
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...
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,...
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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