Fit in. Or Don’t.
You can fit in, or you can stand out. You can’t have it both ways. There are scores of people and groups out there who are more than willing to describe for you to a well-crossed T how you’re to...
View ArticleLeaders Do. Together.
Countless organizations out there right now, while perhaps even appearing healthy and stable to those on the outside looking in, are dying on the inside. Morale is down. Infighting and politics are on...
View ArticleMy Top-Secret Employee Engagement Formula
“Not another post about employee engagement.” Hey, I don’t blame you for thinking it. If you do a Google search for employee engagement, I suspect you’ll come up with roughly 23,900,000 results. Give...
View ArticleHow to Lose Friends and Alienate Employees
Let’s get real. All that Dale Carnegie stuff is nonsense. What we really need to talk about is how we can lose friends and alienate teammates. The reason I say this is because not only is all this...
View Article12 Things Happy Workplaces Have in Common
People want to be happy at work. It’s really not that complicated. What does that look like? I’m so happy you asked. Happy workplaces tend to have a few things in common. 1. People Are Free to be Human...
View ArticleLeaders, Hymnals, and Perfect Posture
No matter how many times they explained it, it still just looked silly to me. Exasperated, they would finally give up, roll their eyes, and their faces would tell me that they were disgusted with what...
View ArticleIt Ain’t All Rainbows and Unicorns
You have to at least consider the possibility that you have no idea what’s going on. We’d like to think that we do. We all like to feel like we know people, like we get people, and that we’re one of...
View Article10 Coworkers You Want to Kick in the Keister
There is no such thing as a perfect workplace. No. Such. Thing. Every organization’s got its own quirks and oddities. Just for kicks, here are some of the folks you’ll see around just about any...
View ArticleLeaders: Everything Means Something
There’s this weird little thing a few people have heard me say before. It’s a silly, awkwardly-constructed sentence, but it’s true nonetheless. Everything means something. Profound, yes? I think we...
View Article18 Things Workplaces Need, More or Less
1. More collaboration. 2. Less “collaboration.” 3. More teams that trust each other based on a mutual humanness and vulnerability. 4. Fewer teams that think because they did a trust exercise this one...
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