Category: Career Advice

2.5 minute read  |  The $0 employee benefit we rarely talk about Here’s a strange question for your next employee engagement survey. “How often do you laugh at work?” Not: Are you satisfied with your compensation? Not: Do you understand our mission? Not: Would you recommend us as an employer? Just: Do you ever laugh…

3 minute read  |  The more intelligent machines become, the more valuable being human may become AI can write your email. Create your presentation. Summarize the meeting. Analyze data. Generate a hundred ideas before you’ve finished your coffee. So here’s a question we aren’t asking nearly enough. If everyone eventually has access to great AI,…

3 minute read  |  What if your company’s next great idea is already normal somewhere else? We travel the world and bring home wine, photographs, recipes, and souvenirs. Maybe we should start bringing home workplace ideas too. There is no single “best” work culture, and reducing countries to stereotypes is both inaccurate and unhelpful. But…

2.5 minute read  |  The ordinary jobs behind extraordinary careers Before the impressive titles, corner offices, awards and bank accounts, a surprising number of extraordinarily successful people had remarkably ordinary jobs. The founder of one of the world’s largest brokerage firms picked and bagged walnuts as a teenager. A chairman of a global food and…

Must Read: Change is the only constant. Is your workforce built for it? The habits separating companies that adapt from those that stall out.

Your biggest liability might not be on the balance sheet. It’s on the org chart. Workforce risks that quietly drain profit before leaders even notice.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month — and every year, well-intentioned companies roll out the same playbook. The meditation app gets a push notification. The wellness webinar goes on the calendar. HR sends a thoughtful email. By June, almost nothing has changed. This isn’t a critique of those efforts. It’s an observation that the conversation…

(That Every Professional Should Learn) A working stand-up comedian walks onto a stage with about ninety seconds to figure out who they are talking to. Not the demographics — the room. Are they tired? Skeptical? Already loose? Did the previous comic crush, or bomb? Are people leaning in or checking phones? By their first real…

It’s 9:47 a.m. The candidate has been in the room four minutes. No substantive questions yet. And the hiring manager already knows. Not for certain — but she’s leaning. And the rest of the hour will mostly confirm it. Hiring managers rarely admit this publicly, but they’ll say it over a coffee or lunch: most…