Why does everyone hate work meetings? We take the hatred and meeting fatigue for granted, don’t we? It’s the basis of half the workplace memes on Instagram and three-quarters of the jokes in any decent office sitcom. The mere utterance
How Bad Business Processes Break Good People
We’ve all seen it. A well-intentioned, talented, motivated employee slowly ground down by an inflexible process that was last updated during the Bush administration. (The first one.) They’re not underperforming. They’re trying to navigate an obstacle course built out of
The Reluctant Entrepreneur
LinkedIn is full of them. The Entrepreneur. Capital E. The one who posts three times a day about hustle culture, scaling secrets, and how they doubled revenue while meditating in a cold plunge. The one who’s launching a new business
Rethinking Workplace Productivity: The Ingenuity-to-Bullshit Ratio
I have long loved the phrase “ratio of ingenuity to bullshit” but for the life of me couldn’t recall where I first heard it. Then, the other day, I found the source where, I am quite certain, I first became
