Why do we make management so hard? I’ve got an entire bookshelf that is full of management and leadership books, many filled with contradictory advice about what really matters or the most effective approaches. Why have we made it so complicated? Spending years as...
The longer I study and teach management, the simpler things become. For example, this week, I was again asked how managing a hybrid team is different than managing a team that is in the office full-time. When someone asks this question, they are expecting me to share...
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...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been wrestling with something internally, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but knew I’ve not quite felt like myself. There’s an unsettled feeling that I can’t shake. It’s not unlike that moment when you lose your balance...
We said our final goodbyes earlier this week to my grandma. After 93 years of life, her health had been failing recently, and she left us last week. I was very close with my grandma and the loss hit me pretty hard. I actually wrote about my grandparents on my blog...
A few weeks ago, I took my youngest son on a ski weekend to Colorado. Skiing is one of my favorite things to do and being able to share it with my son is purely joyful. But that’s not the point of sharing this story. My son is new to skiing. This was only his...
