Our weeks are filled with an endless parade of meetings. Now, taking video calls all day from home. Cycling from Google Hangouts to Zoom and back like a post apocalyptic PG rated version of Chat Roulette. On and onnn they go. One category of meeting rises above them all in importance. It is the Freedom […]
If you believe hope springs eternal, this is one of the best times of the year to find renewed motivation from the greatest minds around the world. In the form of commencement speeches. At least, in the before times.. Actors, musicians, poets, comics, executives, politicians and more generate soundbites and video clips each spring that […]
Memorial Day Weekend is fast approaching, anyone have any fun plans?? Right.. It’s been the longest spring of the decade, that’s for sure. People are dying to get out of town and take some time off. Anything to break up the monotony. After a long couple of months indoors, the remote work day’s beginnings and […]
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 […]