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Most employees are followers, not leaders. Thus they follow the actions of others and are savvy enough to know what they can (and cannot) get away with based on the culture and expectations that are set for them. The less you expect, the less you get. People are not dumb… in fact, they are smarter…

Most managers have been set up to fail. We speak to them daily. Here is what we hear… “I did a great job, outworked my peers and proved I’m an A-player so they promoted me to management” “I barely get paid more as a manager and have a way harder job now” “I walked into…

Should we switch K-12 to being fully remote “learn from home”? What about making the entire college experience “remote work”? Seems like the cons outweigh the pros, right? Then why do we think the answer to almost every professional work environment these days is “lets go fully remote, everyone will love it”? (I’d love eating…

My short answer is YES… I only want to ATTRACT people who want to get better (why would you hire someone not interested in mentorship) I only want to RETAIN people who want to get better (you are expected to continue paying them more each year so they should be expected to improve each year)…

I was delivering a workshop to CEOs in 2010 and got into a heated argument with a participant over the future of talent in the workplace. We got off to a rough start when I opened my talk the way I always did on this topic… “Do you want to reshape your workplace or an…