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.
2. Change jobs
There are psychos everywhere in business, judging by the responses to my post about my Psycho Boss. It certainly struck a nerve with a lot of you.
The picture is a lot more complicated and nuanced than my experience covered. What people have shared with me has many…
Welcome to the Everywhere office.
Some of us have been here for a while. After all, we’ve had laptops, tablets and smartphones for years. Decades, actually.
You’ve seen us around but just haven’t noticed. In the airport lounges, on the…
Careers can be prisons or playgrounds. Mine was both, only not the best way around.
The first half was a playground. I worked in two parts of the business that were small, entrepreneurial units that worked in new technology. They were innovative, creative…
We need to talk about redundancy. I’ve experienced it three times.
Redundancy hurts. It’s a rejection, however you wrap it up. All that tosh about “It’s the position that’s being made redundant, not you, so don’t take it personally” doesn’t wash…
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.
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…
Have you ever sat in a busy office and felt totally alone?
For too many people, work is crap.
That’s why the levels of employee engagement are pitifully low, why the majority of employees would change job tomorrow if a better opportunity arose and why the workplace is awash with apathy.