Jerks at Work

Can you work effectively with arseholes?

I use to think so. That I could have a ‘professional relationship’ with people I nether liked or respected and still deliver.

Now I think I was wrong and that it was damaging to me personally. It’s why today I…

The employee engagement gap

Gallup’s recent State of Work report highlighted an ‘engagement gap’ between the best and the rest (see graph).

Decrapify Work … or die

Work is crap.

It needs to change.

And we’re going to change it.

Or we’ll die. Literally. Today’s toxic workplaces are killing us.

No more Navy Seals, please.

If I read another ‘Leadership’ book that talks about the Navy Seals, I’m going to throw up.

Or any other elite combat group.

Or a leading sports team.

The irresistable advantage of the future of work

The future of work is not about office v home or hybrid v remote.

It’s about what comes next and the irresistible advantages that brings that will cause a seismic shift in how individuals and organisations work.

It’s not WHERE but HOW that matters

The conversation rumbles on about the ‘return to the office’, as evidenced by a rather flawed article on the BBC website titled “Should in-office workers be paid more?”. (The answer’s ‘No’).

Your choices in an unhappy workplace

If you’re one of the 6 in 10 that are not engaged at work (it’s 9 in 10 in the UK!) then you have some choices.

1. Put up with it

2. Change jobs

What basketball tells us about the future of work

“Every company will go remote” predicts Chris Herd, CEO of Firstbase

“We’ll be back in the office 5-days a week” opines Alison Schrager on Bloomberg

The problem with ‘The Great Resignation’

The problem with ‘The Great Resignation’ isn’t that lots of people are quitting their jobs.

It’s that the wrong people are quitting.

All alone in a busy office

Have you ever sat in a busy office and felt totally alone?