In late December, coinciding with the Christmas holiday week and after having fulfilled some final scheduled LinkedIn Live events, I decided to take a break from LinkedIn. Not dramatically. There was neither a farewell tour nor a “taking a break
Two HR Lies We Need to Stop Believing in 2026
It’s almost 2026 but rather than another prediction post or retrospective listicle, I decided to offer a reckoning and call out two HR fictions we need to eliminate in 2026. Are these “lies we tell ourselves” malicious? Not really. But
Thursday is the New Friday: Inside the 4-Day Work Week We Won’t Admit Exists
Thursday at about 3 PM is when it starts. You can feel the collective exhale ripple through the office like a wave as email responses slow to a crawl and Teams chats (other than the “meme chat”) go quiet. The
Meaning-making in the Face of Velocity
If you’ve ever experienced a traumatic event that was a “close call” – i.e. a horrific traffic accident or a medical emergency – it’s quite likely that afterwards you went through several steps. First there was a sense-making process where
