Read on Medium: Open Letter to Uber’s New CEO on Uber’s Culture
December 18, 2017
Interested in company culture? Read my “Open Letter to Uber’s New CEO on Uber’s Culture” written with Amanda McPherson on...
5 Reasons to Become a Better Leader (that have nothing to do with success)
I spend a lot of my time helping leaders become better. But to be honest, research consistently shows that we overestimate the impact leaders have on organizational performance. Consider this recent leadership study showing that firm performance is mostly due to...A real friend with benefits
Recently, Brandon Levey and the amazingly talented team at Stitch Labs compiled a list of expectations they have for managers in their company. Their definition included: someone who builds trust, is incredibly supportive, challenges people to do their best,...
Musings on Work on Labor Day 2015
September 7, 2015
It seems right to take a moment to reflect on the nature of work today and remind ourselves of the ways we can build meaningful work environments. The holiday has ceased to be an occasion to demonstrate the power of labor unions, perhaps because so many companies now...
The Innovator’s Personality
February 10, 2015
Harold Evans’ They Made America is filled with vivid stories and photos of American invention over the last century. It is an account of audacity, the bold and sometimes arrogant disregard of natural restraints in service of some vision or problem to be solved....
PsyCap and Gamification
August 26, 2014
A new concept is gaining momentum in the world of work psychology: positive psychological capital or PsyCap for short. It describes a constellation of other, more established psychological constructs such as efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. Together, these...