Ask most managers about their daily leadership activities, and I bet they’d snarl back at you: “I make money.” That’s certainly one aspect of leadership, although we know from research that about 21.4 million middle managers add absolutely no value back to their firm. So, there’s that! The other response…

We now “communicate” way more than we “iterate.” — That chart above is from some new-ish Microsoft report on the future of work — I’ve read parts of the report, but not all of it, and I can only assume that the solution at the end of the report is “Buy Office Online” — and while it doesn’t seem…

“That much ass, she must be good at math.” — I’ve been on TikTok approximately six times in my entire life, and each time I scrolled for maybe 30 seconds to one minute. I don’t find it that awesome. But maybe because of my lack of TikTok-y-ness, I didn’t know about the term “body count,” which feels like something you…

The narrative gets twisted in the culture wars and vague allusions to work ethic. — I hope by now we realize that “nobody wants to work anymore” was a white male conservative dog whistle, writ large: “Nobody Wants To Work Anymore” Is The Lamest Of The White Male Conservative Dog Whistles Plenty of people want to work, but the problem is the terms and conditions of the work involved, and that’s where the…tedbauer.medium.com

This is why most people leave jobs — even though bosses don’t want to admit this is the real reason. — The first thing you need to realize whenever anyone discusses a topic like “the future of work” is that said concept varies drastically from A-Place to B-Place in the world. How could someone in an office park in Topeka, Kansas feel the exact same way about work as someone doing…

It might not seem like your responsibility, but in reality it is everyone’s responsibility. — This topic can get confusing for people. Let me try to sketch it out for you. I started thinking about it just recently again because I watched an EWU (Explore With Us) video about a case involving a man named Sonny Kim. He killed his sister (potentially half-sister), and the…

Preach and amen. — Here is a new article from WorkLife talking about “splitters” and “blenders” in terms of work style. In essence, a “splitter” is someone that draws hard lines around work and personal time, and from 8:30am until 4pm, all they do is focus on work. This is the “I eat lunch…

This cycle boomerangs back around every so often. — We’ve had a few bombs in the child-rearing culture wars in the last few weeks to bring this issue of “Can those with kids and those without kids be friends?” back to the forefront. Let’s run through some of the assets. You had this long, generally-good essay/article in New York…

It doesn’t really seem like it does. — The Wall Street Journal cranks out any number of print + digital articles in a given day, to the point that remembering any specific article from that publication is a fool’s errand. Despite that, I always remember this one specific article from WSJ, from way back in November 2019. It…