The year is 1977. A young small business employee comfortably works away at his established family business. Then, a chance meeting with a recruiter. He’s given an offer to join a startup developing exciting new technology against a powerful incumbent. He hesitates. Why leave a familiar role and known safety to join an unfamiliar boss […]
We’re living in the upside down these days. Reductions in force continue to snowball, 26+ million unemployed across the country…and the market has been going up? What? When reality seems to dislocate from common sense, it is important to come back to some ground truths as we seek to survey the landscape ahead with our […]
Procurement (n) – the action of obtaining or procuring something. According to one “Head of Procurement” job posting: Responsible for the delivery of specific Cost Reduction and Cash Flow targets in alignment with overarching goals and objectives, with a focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizable gains in Value Engineering/Reform. What the hell […]
Many managers will be on the hunt for new opportunities as this wild new economic reality continues to deteriorate. Layoffs.fyi, a COVID layoff tracking website, has the current startup job cuts at >24k at the time of this post. It’s painful out there. One of the most interesting ways to dig into a prospective company’s […]
COVID-19 has caused an exponential rise in leadership and management challenges across the world which we’ll all be reading about and dissecting for years to come. When we return to work, we’ll enter a world quite different than the one we lived in before. One thing though, that will definitely not be different, is that […]
When we are overcome by a great force, it’s almost impossible in the moment to figure out how we could have been better prepared. Now is not that time. The somber stories of a new professional reality continue to roll in. Layoffs. Compensation reductions. Client business reduction. Personal distractions. If you had theoretically walked out […]
April is almost upon us. Spring showers. Easter candy. Summer right around the corner. And for the more unsuspecting of us as the calendar turns, here comes April Fools Day. Oh the joy. Speaking of joy, we also seem to be on the cusp of a global recession and businesses, workers, and their families are […]
The past week has been bazooka filled with an insane torrent of headlines. And Tom Hanks’ tweet felt like the tipping point. Is this real life? How can anyone be sure.. Plainly, the world is different now than it was just a couple weeks ago and we’re all straining to see through to the other […]
So many challenges for all of us on the management journey. This week it is increasingly hard for us to separate our mission of providing actionable evergreen help to those pathfinders from the invisible elephant stampeding around us. A massive intangible wrench thrown into the works of a fully online society in the form of […]
Welp, the fastest growing startup in the world is the Corona virus, pejoratively speaking. Its effects are spreading across the world more rapidly than the stock market can decide which direction it wants to go each morning of the past week and a half. There is a Robinhood pun somewhere in there but, alas, we […]