Thriving When Work is Remote (Part 1)
In 2020, work has taken on a Gertrude Stein sort of feeling, a sense of distance from our old work sites. These lines from “You There,” a verse that appears in my book [...]
In 2020, work has taken on a Gertrude Stein sort of feeling, a sense of distance from our old work sites. These lines from “You There,” a verse that appears in my book [...]
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 of our businesses. It also poses a more insidious [...]
During the coronavirus sequestering, all jokes will become…inside jokes. I got that gag off the internet. Feel free to reuse. If that dad joke didn’t strike your funny bone, then find some other reason [...]
You think your work can be boring? Right now, as you read this screen and sip your coffee, the mythological king Sisyphus is in Hades, straining to push a rock up a hill for [...]
How is interpersonal trust like a butterfly’s wings? It’s compelling and functional: beautiful to behold and good at providing uplift. It’s also difficult to create – just ask the caterpillar – and fragile, more [...]
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. The other major sources vary, from money worries to [...]
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. The other major sources vary, from money worries to [...]
Not long ago, I found myself in a client meeting, sitting opposite a senior manager from the overseas parent company. Before him at the conference table he had laid out three telephones, a computer [...]
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 [...]
Imagine you work in a small high-tech company, and this is what the CEO says about his ideal workplace culture: “Fire people who are not workaholics. Come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not [...]