PinnedMember-onlyWill Your Company Soon Have a “Director of Remote Work?”Facebook announced recently it is hiring for a new role: Director of Remote Work. Let that sink in. …WFH5 min read
PinnedWearing a Mask is Like Green Eggs and Ham.Wearing a Mask is Like Green Eggs and Ham. By: Mike Hoban (Both an apology and an acknowledgement to the wonderful Dr. Seuss) Pam: I am Pam. Pam-I-am. This isn’t about green eggs and ham; Wearing masks is on my mind But Joe right there, he just declined. Joe: That…Covid 194 min read
PinnedThe Most Important Piece of Evidence that Zoom has “Arrived”[Portions of this piece first published in my Fast Company article of January 2013.] Yes, Zoom, the videoconferencing platform, has arrived. It is a “thing.” It has millions of users and an eye-popping share price. …Remote Working4 min read
PinnedYou’re Famous if Someone Uses Your Name as an Adjective!There it was on the first page of Eric Larson’s new book The Splendid and the Vile about Churchill and the dark days of 1940–41: “Vonnegutian violence.” As in Kurt Vonnegut. …Language3 min read
PinnedWill Your Current/Future Job be Home-Based or Office-Based?(It might depend on whether your job involves moving carbon or moving electrons…) Perhaps the Work From Home (WFH) phenomenon burgeoned by the pandemic might not just be a temporary workaround until things get back to “normal.” Emerging reports from some business executives suggest that many companies have been pleasantly…WFH6 min read
PinnedDon’t Confuse Feedback With CoachingThey can both be valuable but they are different… Coaching almost always involves some sort of feedback but the reverse is not true — most feedback does not involve coaching. Huh? Precision in language is important and I’ve seen and heard a lot of imprecision over the years about those…Feedback5 min read
PinnedDo Your Company’s Values Need a Refresh in Light of “All of This?”Key elements of the work world and of the world itself have been thrown into the blender. The COVID crisis. Work at home and the slow transition to coming back. Digital meetings. Fractured supply chains. The worldwide economic downturn. The widespread protests against racism. So much volatility, uncertainty. In light…Values4 min read
PinnedHow Strategic Leaders “See” DifferentlyLeaders who are purposefully strategic not only listen differently, but they also see differently. At first that might seem to be a metaphorical stretch, but it’s a practical distinction which describes leaders who transition from an operational to a strategic mindset and skill set. Consider even the everyday language we…Leadership5 min read
PinnedOctober 16 is National Boss’s Day. How Will You Observe it?Everyone has a “boss” and there are millions of them out there in the work world even though almost none have the word “boss” in their title. A couple of interesting factoids about bosses and Boss’s Day: You have a woman named Barbara Horoski — not Hallmark — to thank…Leadership5 min read
Aug 13Does Mandating A Return To Office (RTO) Disqualify A Leader From Being An Empowered Leader?“Unhealthy organizations compel behavior. Compelled behavior is inherently destructive.” — Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of Visa and recently deceased management deep thinker As this commentator has observed several times in pandemic and post-pandemic work world articles, it’s a tough time to be an effective leader. There aren’t many…Leadership7 min read
