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conversation starter

A decade ago, my old social media buddy, the anthropologist Jyri Engestrom, gave me a great insight about the power of “Social Objects”. People don’t …

#employmentux

To say that there’s a connection between customer well-being, employee well-being, and company well-being is hardly new. What IS new, is a term that …

mission drives the business

When you’re in business, you’re perpetually looking for a positive outcome. This could be more money, more innovation, more sales, more clients, more publicity, whatever. …

spare time

Where do we find the time, and solitude to do our work- you know, the stuff that we are actually paid to do? Not …

public/private self

The trouble with being successful is that it’s exhausting. Not to mention, stressful. Not to mention, overly complicated. Not to mention… well, you know. …

self-actualized employees

Not everybody on your team is going to be super successful. Not everyone is going to be a unicorn. But that shouldn’t stop you from …

boredom nation

Back when I was a sixteen year old, keeping myself amused was probably my hardest occupation. The Internet hadn’t been invented yet, nor had I …

perfectly controlled

The media likes to portray business folk as people in charge. Ha. If only. Business is too messy for that. But a good leader knows …

millionaire artist

This was drawn in New York, July, 1998. My late father used to call this one, “Hugh’s Autobiography”. Like pretty much every young person in …

die free

You can’t live free until you’re ready to die free first. No chains, no handcuffs- just freedom. Anything worth doing will cost you your life eventually. …

emotion, belief, engagement

According to Harvard Business review, about 85% of change initiatives inside large companies fail. Why? Because, like we’re fond of telling our culture change clients, “Nothing …