Is it an amazing coincidence… …the leaders I trusted the most through my career were the exact same leaders who placed their trust in me? …I believed in the leaders who believed in me? …I cared about the leaders who cared about me? …I gave the benefit of the doubt to the leaders who gave me the benefit of the doubt? …I developed the most with the leaders who most wanted to ... Read Full Article
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Leading Change Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
Ever tried to turn a department or team around? The common sense dream is that it gets easier with each successful change. The counterintuitive reality is that it usually gets more difficult before it gets better. How can that be? I remember taking the GRE to get into grad school. This was a million years ago and they probably do things differently now. At the time, they used ... Read Full Article
Suffering with Passion & Living the Dream by Broc Edwards
I hear a lot about passion these days. Not the NSFW naughty pictures kind of passion, but passion for work. It seems EVERY college student I talk to tells me (or puts on their resume) they must have a job they are passionate about. Interestingly, they often don’t know what they’re passionate about, they are just convinced there must be passion. Similarly, I see a lot of ... Read Full Article
Unknown Battles of Women
A women at work theme on PiC this month? No worries, I know lots of women at work. My wife is a woman at work. She has been in a leadership or entrepreneurial roles since she was 23. My mother is semi-retired and continues running her business on a limited scale because she enjoys it. My daughter is (all too quickly becoming) a woman at work. Highly entrepreneurial, she has ... Read Full Article
The Culture Question
Culture is not a thing, it’s action. Culture is not intention, it’s behavior. Culture cannot be delegated, it’s everyone. There’s a lot that goes into an organization’s culture, but the simplest operating definition I’ve come across is “culture is the way things get done around here.” Culture is a byproduct of behavior, so maybe we should worry less about “culture” and more ... Read Full Article
Changing Your Work: You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask
We can’t fix things if we don’t know they are broken. We can’t improve if we don’t know where we are falling short. Want to find ways to be an even better HR department or leader? Just ask. It’s easier than you might think. Sure, sometimes it’s necessary to conduct massive surveys and crunch mountains of data, seeking out statistically significant correlations. Enormous ... Read Full Article
The One Thing Worse Than Buying a Car
Quick. What’s the single most painful purchase process? Gotta be buying car, right? Nope, but you’re on the right track. Now, buying a car is tremendously painful, I’ll give you that. It’s a big decision and a huge financial commitment. It seems impossible to have a simple transaction without the “I have to talk to the manager” games and even when you have the car negotiated ... Read Full Article
Keeping it 2014
I’m writing this on the Eve of the New Year. My social media feeds are filled with thoughts closing out 2014 and bringing in 2015. Bookstores, sporting goods retailers, and gyms are fully geared up to capitalize on the “new year, new you” frenzy that strikes like clockwork every year. Yet, experience suggests the vast majority of people and companies are preparing for ... Read Full Article