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May 2022 - on hiring for cultural fit, equal pay, myths about work culture, and admitting when you're wrong
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone
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April 2022 - brilliance is overrated, tours of duty, being connected at work, and meeting doomsday
To know only your own side of the case is to know little indeed
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March 2022 - quality jobs, bullshit jobs, the so-called great resignation, and what managers can do about it
the recurring slap: March 15 was Equal Pay day
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February 2022 - toxic culture, boosting retention, FOMO, and employees thinking like owners
Dialogue or violence. There is no in-between
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December 2021 - Year three in review
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
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November 2021 - on pay for performance, what makes a good manager, Oops write-ups, and team autonomy
November has been a month of challenges and surprises for me. So this will be a shorter issue. How much do you know about how your team works? On average managers either did not know or could not remember 60% of the work their teams do. In one extreme instance,
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October 2021 - on hiring well, your team's weakest link, collaboration, and re-onboarding
People who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question
EME
100 recommendations for making meetings more beautiful
Members of the House of Beautiful Business community shared ideas on how to improve meetings. Before you join your next meeting, have a read-through of what they came up with. See what the repetition is saying (or not saying). Even better: before you schedule your next, ask yourself: does
leadership
Can we manage without managers?
In response to an article in The Economist about the need for middle managers, Michele Zanini writes: Just because the ladder has fewer rungs doesn't mean leadership opportunities are scarce-quite the opposite. By giving people the ability to gain influence (and compensation) based on accomplishment as opposed
Ling- English
It’s time to rewild your attention
When you read what everyone else is reading, you’re likely to think what everyone else is thinking. And you might only be reading what the algorithms are putting before you. It’s time to rewild your attention. Big-tech recommendation systems (…) pose a (…) challenge for our imaginative lives: Their
Business Communication
It's not always rude to talk over each other
It’s called Cooperative overlapping. It seems self-evident. Starting to speak before another has finished violates their right to the floor. In formal contexts such as political debates, it breaches the rules. In casual conversation, it is simply rude.But it’s not so simple. As a linguist who
Business Basics
Your own privacy policy
Food for thought about privacy policies from Doc Searls: There is no reason why websites and services can’t agree to your privacy policy, and your terms of engagement. In legal terms, you should be able to operate as the first party, and to proffer your own terms, to which