Why do we stay in jobs that are bad for us?

I have a post drafted in my blog titled “My birthday gift to myself this year…

Get out of crisis mode

I was in a meeting once when an employee made the painfully acute statement that “we’ve gotten really good at fire…

Build the Flowers Paradigm: Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge

No person on your team is “replaceable”

I had this boss who had no understanding of what his team actually did and would often…

Watch out for the “gotcha” mentality

I’m sure I’ve been encountering this personality type for my entire life but it wasn’t until…

Fixing a Sick System

I’ve written a lot about “sick systems” — those systems at our workplaces which bind us to them. This started after I left…

Sick systems are literally killing us

In May 2014, I wrote a long piece about the sick system I’d recently left. I called the…

Sharing fitness tracker data with your doctor shouldn’t be discouraged

The failures of sink or swim management

A friend and former colleague of mine referred me to this article in the Harvard Business…