My Birthday Wish for 2022

It’s my birthday this weekend. Everyone has a little different relationship with their birthday. Some embrace it and welcome the attention (thanks, Facebook). Others avoid mentioning it because it reminds them of another year gone and opportunities missed. I’ve always...
The Simplest Way to Build Trust

The Simplest Way to Build Trust

Few things have a more powerful effect on employee engagement and performance than trust. Hopefully, I don’t have to convince you of the importance trust at work. We have thirty or forty years’ worth of research to demonstrate its importance (examples: here,...
Same storm, different boats

Same storm, different boats

In March 2020, just as the pandemic was ramping up to wreak havoc on us, writer and broadcaster Damian Barr shared this short reflection on Twitter. We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. Some are in superyachts. Some have just the one oar. It...
Jason Lauritsen