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Does Your Work Matter?
We can divide our jobs into two hemispheres: “meaningful work” and “busy work”. Meaningful work is the stuff we actually care about. Busy work …
Emotions Come First Every Time…No Matter the Consequences
For those of you who like listening to history lectures, this one is a real doozy. You could argue that the South lost the Civil War …
How To Frame A Crisis
Part of a CEO’s job in any company is dealing with crises. Stuff happens. And often when it does happen, your first instinct is to panic, or …
What does CNN, FOX and Haagen Dazs have in common?
Finally, science has nailed it: consuming negative news via the media makes you less productive at work. We’ve always kinda suspected that, right? Although we …
Do you really want to be successful?
People think that the reason organizations are successful is because they’re bigger, meaner, and or smarter than the other guys. That has some special technology, …
‘Soft Skills’ are the ones you really cannot learn
T/F: Anything can be taught. False. Big false. Lots of things can be taught, especially if we’re talking skills, but ‘soft skills’ are something you …
Inclusion: It’s about norms, not policy
The world is a very scary place. Being human is a very scary undertaking. There’s a lot that can go wrong out there. So we …
Why Employees Lose Their Motivation
Napoleon famously said, “Good morale is worth 50,000 men.” That’s another way of saying, in modern business parlance, motivation accounts for roughly 40% of a …
Your boss didn’t take the Culture Science© 101 Class…and it’s okay
Everybody has been talking about Digital Transformation for so long, it’s starting to feel a bit quaint. The process now feels inevitable. As everyone and …
Why you can make $1.2 million a year and still feel broke
There was an article in the Times about young Harvard Business School grads earning $1.2million a year and yet are still miserable. “I feel like I’m …
Want Some Great Advice?
A very successful business woman once said, “The people in your business matter far more than what specific business you’re in.” It’s the people who …
How to transcend the daily drudgery
This is why there’s religion. This is why there’s Star Wars. This is why there’s politics. This is why there’s Crossfit. And if you’re smart …
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