Humor

Free Will*

November 8th, 2023|

I really can’t control the things I do Because, you see, I haven’t got free will That’s why what’s old can seem to be quite [...]

Crypto Crashes, Celebs Quake

January 26th, 2023|

The recent cryptocurrency meltdown has brought its share of troubles for investors and for trading firms like FTX and its techbro CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. But [...]

Is Your Manager a Minotaur?

October 25th, 2022|

How would you describe your boss’s management style? Is her or she: Autocratic – Wears a crown and scepter to eliminate any doubt Visionary – [...]

Create Your Annoying Personal Brand

June 9th, 2022|

Your personal brand encompasses the attitudes and behaviors you consistently demonstrate to your colleagues at work. You might, for example, become known as “Ms. Collaborative,” [...]

Consumer-Driven HR

The Impact of Consumer-Driven HR

December 17th, 2014|

Over the past decade, there has been a growing trend among global organizations to treat their employees as internal consumers. The most innovative of these companies have gone a step [...]

Culture

We Need a COVID Bill of Responsibilities

August 30th, 2021|

The Founding Fathers created many historically important, country-defining documents. Think: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Rules of Baseball (which established our national pastime, granting it [...]

Workplace Culture and Stress

June 23rd, 2018|

A career in banking can seem very attractive: high salaries (for some anyway), good working conditions and prestige. But beware. Employees in corporate banking jobs across 26 countries experience higher stress levels than people in other finance careers, according to a recent study.¹ One person described a job in banking this way: “You will be required to work very [...]

Managers and Manager Behavior

The Manager Paradox

October 30th, 2013|

Lion tamer, U.S. president, inner-city high school teacher, air traffic controller. To this list of stressful jobs, add one more: manager . The headline on a tech [...]

The New Manager Manifesto

July 18th, 2012|

Management and leadership have been integral parts of business since humans invented work. For most of the last two decades, though, the manager position has been [...]

Stress and Well-Being

Thriving In The Virus Time

July 1st, 2020|

Three Ways to Help Employees Thrive During the Virus Time COVID-19 threatens almost all of us, endangering our individual well-being and imperiling the collective health [...]

Humor at Work

March 31st, 2019|

When the American Psychological Association studies stress in the U.S., their findings routinely identify work as one of the top three sources of elevated anxiety. [...]

What Should Organizations Do About Workplace Stress?

August 14th, 2018|

For many of us who toil in the modern workplace, it sometimes seems the main exercise we get comes from aerobic stress. Much like a session on the treadmill, stress fires up our cardiovascular systems with adrenaline, gets our hormones pumping [...]