Good line from an Anne Helen Petersen newsletter, with the full line being:
Our society values parenting, not parents; it honors “work ethic,” not workers; we cherish children in the abstract, but not actual children themselves.
Where you come down on this quote is going to vary drastically based on…
Was actually just discussing this topic earlier this morning at a men’s group type thing. If your boss sucks, and it’s impacting your home life, and everything is chaos all the time — and, sadly, this is fairly common — what really are your options? …
I write about work problems a lot. To my mind, most of them come from an over-focus on measurable aspects of work — and a corresponding under-focus on “soft skills” like better management, true leadership, communication, empathy, self-awareness, and the like. We’ve wanted work to be logical for decades. That’s…
That’s the first line of this morning’s New York Times newsletter, which later goes on to note:
Progressive activists often point out — accurately — the central role that race and racism play in the U.S. Polls show, for example, that a large percentage of Americans feel racial animus. That…
I have never, for the life of me, understood the Gartner HR practice. They write all these long, flowery articles about work for Harvard Business Review and other places, and each time I see one, it seems like not a soul who works there actually understands work at all. Logically…
I was just sitting around letting my dog run in my new-ish yard and I read through this article on Wharton’s website. It’s by some 30-year veteran of leadership development programs, and he’s essentially arguing that we need to bring “love” and “compassion” into work. I agree with this conceptually…
I think, by now, we all know this is somewhat of a problem. In May 2019, which currently feels like 10 years ago and not 2.5, Harper’s Bazaar even blared “Men have no friends, and women bear the burden.” (I know quite a few female friend groups that shared that…
This kind of post can easily become super preachy, and I’m trying to avoid that, so let me simplify it out a little bit.
Your life is, essentially, a series of decisions that you make, then subsequently live through. We try to gussy it up in lots of other inspirational…
Here’s the deal: Thanksgiving can be an emotionally-misguided time. Drama emerges, things are said, etc, etc. We’ve all been there. (I honestly think it’s either that or small talk. There’s no middle ground.) Can it be avoided? Sure. You can avoid your family. But if that’s not a possibility, is…
Corporations love to talk about empathy, for both customers (more common) and employees (sometimes, but less common). But are they even using the word right? No. This is what they actually mean:
At the same time, corporations have been driving the idea for empathy. As they are looking to market…
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