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Book Review – Joy at Work
Key Takeaway: The KonMari method involves visualizing your ideal work life in order to tidy based on what sparks joy. This helps to clarify the work you like to do and can provide the inspiration to alter your career path. Who would appreciate this book: middle...
How to Manage Someone You Don’t Like
Let’s say you are promoted to take over a mat leave. You already know the people on the team and there’s one person who has just rubbed you the wrong way since you met them. It’s not that there is anything wrong with them, but for some reason you just don’t like them....
It’s Time To Rethink The Role Of Manager
Think of the ideal manager. Do you picture someone who is a coach and mentor, someone who removes roadblocks for their team, someone who is there to bounce ideas off of, and someone who communicates the greater needs of the company’s strategic vision back to their...
The Case For Extreme Honesty
What if you recorded every meeting and any employee could watch and listen later? Or if you wrote an email complaining about another employee, that person was immediately cc’ed so that both parties would be forced into a conversation? How would your communication...
3 Ways To Avoid Having The Tower Of Knowledge
Does your organization have a Tower of Knowledge? What’s your plan if/when they leave? Working on that plan now can save you a whole lot of work and stress when they give their two weeks notice. Most start-ups have a tower of knowledge. They are typically employee 3...
The 3 Main Causes Of Corporate Silos And What To Do About Them
No business starts by having silos. When a company launches, usually the lines between roles and departments blur as it’s all hands-on deck to find revenue and solve the inevitable fires that come with growing a business. Eventually, as roles...
How The Values Incubator Was Born
I have worked in many different companies and office environments. 33 jobs to be exact. My career has been almost exclusively contract work at companies ranging from small family run businesses with 2-5 employees to large national/international companies with...
An Introduction To Corporate Culture
Corporate culture is a hot topic these days as companies try to attract top talent through their “awesome” culture and ping pong table. A Google search of corporate culture pulls up almost 29M results and Amazon has no shortage of books about how to improve, build or...