June 16, 2021
Right now, every company is trying to figure out their return-to-office, fully-remote, or hybrid strategy. And while those approaches have implications for the people working there today, nowhere is the conversation hotter than around what it means for prospective hires.
May 19, 2021
After a year of being burnt out, crispy fried, work from home, but mostly living at work, employers are asking if we’re ready to come back.
April 21, 2021
When people write the bumper stickers about management versus leadership, this is what they mean. The willingness to make the hard call, to do the unpopular thing, not from a place of taking big swings.
April 7, 2021
There’s a grand re-integration coming. As the normalcy of exterior life returns it’s gonna let us focus on what a mess we’ve made of the place, internally.
March 10, 2021
That we’re at the one year mark for the first lockdowns and it feels like everyone is quitting, well, we can’t say we’re surprised. But it’s our full time job to pay attention to this stuff. And what we’re hearing from a lot of you is: why now?
February 24, 2021
At work, lots of folks are finding it hard to track externalities. And even if they can, who has the energy to go chasing them? As though we need any more reminders that other people’s poor decisions can adversely impact us? It’s no wonder that move inward is showing up at work, too.
February 10, 2021
The truth about most calendar-run organizations is that calendars are law. If it’s on the calendar, it’s real. And if it’s empty, it’s up for grabs.
January 27, 2021
Maybe this is you and maybe it isn’t. But if you’re leading a team, understand that many of your people are doing this. And if so, here are some things you can do to help.
December 30, 2020
Thank you for 2020. Thank you for forwarding our stuff, and writing us to tell us when it hit. We’re trying to make work better for people because we think it’s possible and worthy and important.
November 18, 2020
This week in particular we need you using your sway in the organization to make structural change. We need you managing up and across. Whatever’s on that list is going to need action, if your people and your organization are going to make it through winter in one piece.
November 4, 2020
This is a week to reach for empathy before accountability. Not because accountability doesn’t matter. But because you’re at risk of mistaking hurt humans for bad employees. That’s a mistake we don’t want you to make.
October 21, 2020
We’re asking our brains to do a lot of work right now. We’re doing our day jobs, caretaking, feeding ourselves, figuring out voting, trying to keep track of the latest public health guidelines, R (and also k), and waiting for updates from the vaccine trials.
We're not sorry.
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