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My recent video about Quiet Quitting generated a lot of reaction. Reading through the comments, I was reminded of a sad reality. Work still sucks for a lot of people. If you look at any article or video online about Quiet Quitting, you find the same thing–a bunch of comments that fall mostly into two categories. The biggest…

It’s the conversations we are most afraid of that are the most important to have.  This is true in all areas of our lives. And it’s particularly true at work right now. As you worry about retention and losing our best people, I’d ask you this.  Do you know why each of your best people…

Is it just me or does it seem like references to “quiet quitting” are everywhere all of a sudden? Thanks, TikTok. Last year, it was people posting their resignations to TikTok (also known as “for real quitting”). Now it’s quiet quitting. But what is it? Is it actually quitting? And it’s not really that quiet…

One of the biggest mistakes I see from managers and organizations is how they address performance issues with employees. They treat the performance issue as if it’s some flaw in the employee to be fixed. Or worse, like the employee has somehow decided to under-perform on purpose and deserves to be punished. Performance improvement plans…

Over the past week, I’ve been asked twice what I think the future of work will look like. And while it’s always fun to speculate, here’s the truth.  There is no way to know with any precision what’s coming in the future. If there’s anything the past few years has taught us, it should be…