by Jason Lauritsen | Aug 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, TLNT.com published an interesting piece about swearing (cussing, using foul language, etc.) in the workplace. Here are the cliff’s notes as I read it: half of employees say they swear at work, the other look down their nose in judgement on them for...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
About a month ago, I bought my wife a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. By that point, the media had me convinced that everyone woman (and some men) in America was reading this book. A few of her close friends had been reading the book and talking to her about it, but...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
What role does vulnerability play in innovation, performance, and success within our organizations and our lives? Could it be that cultivating vulnerability in ourselves and others has more power than developing talent? These are questions that are floating around in...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever seen any of the Men in Black movies, you know that the said “men in black” carry around a little device that flashes and flushes people’s memories of certain events. This is how they keep humans from remembering their encounters...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
In talking with a friend yesterday, we stumbled into a really important question that seems pretty simple on the surface: Are you happy? Turns out, it’s like the tip of an iceberg. Harmless question on the surface it seems, but it has the mass to knock you off...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
As humans, we are really skilled at rationalizing things. We re-write history in our heads and re-frame events to fit the version we were hoping for. We don’t do it with any ill intentions, it’s just how our brain copes with the world. We want to...
