From the category archives:
When it comes to competitiveness, ambition, and the drive to be the best, one size does not fit all.
Not even close:
Know your team—especially who your supporting players are and who your go-getters are—and either find roles for them where they can excel, or make the decision to hire only one group or the other and [...]
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Find a work environment that invests in practice opportunities and makes failure safe.
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When testing Mother Nature, or when testing yourself in a new skill, always respect your surroundings:
Getting used to a new place takes time. Honing a new skill takes time. When you look at a professional doing something and think, “Pfft, that’s easy,” chances are, the pro is making it look easy. Chances are also that [...]
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It’s the end of the year… time for the holidays, friends, and really uncomfortable conversations between bosses and subordinates.
To honor this awkward annual ritual, I thought I’d dust off what could be the best video Elle & I have done together: my performance review of her during her kindergarten year.
Pay attention, you may just learn [...]
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In a follow up to Elle & me ripping apart that Nutella commercial in which a suburban mom proclaims—ridiculously—”I believe in Nutella,” we put the product to the test. Here you go… Elle’s first experience with the product (and my first experience with it in over a dozen years), captured on video:
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I’m just hanging with Elle here… and we’re cold! It’s cold! in Chicago! Elle’s in my office with wet hair and I’m cold! just looking at her. Maybe that’s why I’m trying to warm her up the entire time during this video, the simple lesson of which is this:
Sometimes, you think you know what life [...]
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“You’ll either have a great experience, or a great story… but probably not both.”
—Jason Seiden
Given: Not every holiday will be fun.
Hypothesis: You can create a lifetime of happy memories for yourself, even out of those less-than-pleasant family gatherings, by using cognitive dissonance.
Experiment: Create a set of memories that conflict with the original set. Assuming you [...]
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C’mon, Nutella. You’re delicious, but your last commercial is… disappointing. It opens with…
…a mom who “believes in Nutella?”
Wonderful. That’s a nonsense phrase. You’re using a marketing gimmick to trick people into making a purchase based on a fleeting emotional high as opposed to any meaningful benefit.
Nutella, you’re better than that!
Did you not read my last [...]
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Are you over-engineering your career path?
Have you ever taken an opportunity because of the exposure it gave you—or was supposed to give you—to the higher ups?
Have you ever taken a job because it seemed like a great stepping stone to bigger and better things?
Have you ever carefully plotted out a complicated plan for achieving some [...]
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With all due respect to the very sharp Josh Bersin and fellow bloggers Laurie Ruettimann, Lance Haun, Sharlyn Lauby, and Kris Dunn, this is ridiculous.
First of all, the term “weisure” is a joke. We’re blending work and leisure? No, we’re not. These two things don’t mix. Ever see those billboards in airports showing smiling people [...]
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