“Oh my god”, she said, on the escalator out of the HR conference. “You do employer brands? We totally need an employer brand. I think. I don’t know. Maybe we need an employee value proposition. What the fu*k is that anyway? Can you come in tomorrow? I like your purse.” I will grant you that […]
Is Thought Leadership Dead?
A recurrent theme among the Blognocracy in 2017 was the idea that we are at “peak content”. Meaning there is simply no more room out there for all the posts and blogs and books and videos and webinars and white papers and so on. I disagree, though I will admit that we are at Peak Bullshit. […]
It’s Time to Focus on Employee Trust
Is the CEO of your company a giant sleazebag? Well I certainly hope not, and if they are, then you should stop reading this and go apply for jobs pretty much anywhere because life is too short for sleazy executives. I certainly hope that you do not consider your CEO to be a sleazebag, but […]
Those Shiny, Happy People Are for Real
We’re back again for another look at internal organizational influencers. Last week we considered how those grumpy Eeyores are actually valuable allies in helping you ferret out pockets of dysfunction and misery. Today, I’d like to look at the other side of the influencer coin: the Tiggers. In the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Tigger is the indefatigably […]
The Business Case for Negative Thinking
Last week we appropriated some beloved childhood characters to better identify internal organizational influencers. Now let’s dig in on those Eeyore employees. You will recall, either from A.A. Milne, or last week’s post that Eeyores are the grumpy, negative folks for whom nothing bad is surprising and everything good will eventually turn to sh*t. Such […]
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