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...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Human Resources has become the red-headed step child of the business world. It breaks my heart, but despite the fact that our role is to facilitate the management of the organziation’s most potent resource, we still aren’t taken seriously in far too many...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about letting go and the challenges inherent in that for me. I got a number of really great responses to that post that indicated that I’m not the only one who has some struggles with letting go at times. One response, though, stopped me in...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Learning to be a leader can be hard. A lot of us have had to learn the skills of leadership on the job. We weren’t really trained to be a leader before we found ourselves in our first role that required us to lead. We just had to get started. The complicated...
