So you want to become an influencer or thought leader in 2020? Well, in a recent episode of Let’s Fix Work, I shared five tips to help you achieve that goal. Today, I wanted to share two of those five tips with you. The first thing you need to understand when setting out to become…
I belong to a small cohort of people who like the same things, listen to the same music, read and share the same damn articles. How do I get new information? Where do I go to find new ideas? Good questions. Groupthink is toxic but tough to avoid. At the beginning of my freelance career,…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 89: Ready to jump into the new year with a talk about marketing, sales, and music? Perfect, then you are in for a treat! My guest this week is David Meerman Scott. He is a business performance consultant, entrepreneur and bestselling author of Fanocracy: Turning Fans Into Customers and Customers Into…
The new year seems like an opportune time to pause, reflect, and make the necessary changes to optimize our lives. But I’ve come to believe that January is overrated. There’s never really an easy time to modify habits, adjust expectations, or even end relationships. That’s because change is fucking hard, no matter the month. So…
Work therapy is trendy right now. Your job shouldn’t send you to therapy. When you seek help for work-related trauma and stress, your leaders have failed you. The system has failed you. More importantly, the HR team has failed you. Yet, more and more of us are winding up in a counselor’s office because…
My friend and mentor, Lars Schmidt, is the creator of the 21st Century HR Podcast. On that show, you’ll hear real-world HR leaders with a fresh take on the world of human resources. What do I love about the show? Well, is that it’s an honest look into what it takes to bring HR out…
Back in 2010, there were lots of discussions about the future of work in 2020. The first camp predicted that the future of work would be automated and digitized. They told us — We are in an unprecedented period of uncertainty that is more disruptive than previous economic revolutions. If companies can replace a human…
I’m militantly opposed to working for free. Companies love to pay people in culture and opportunities, but I can’t pay my American Express card with hope and possibility. But I do work for free sometimes. Four times a year, I’ll speak for free to not-for-profit groups, student organizations, and professional associations that are aligned with…
I have all kinds of goals in 2020, but my biggest goal is to bully my sister into quitting smoking. Bullying works, right? Shoot, it doesn’t. The only thing that works is to offer low-cost smoking cessation programs and prevent other people from smoking in the first place. That’s why I hustle up a skyscraper…
Physical and mental burnout can take a toll on leaders, entrepreneurs, and employees. In fact, a Gallup study of nearly 7,500 full-time employees found that 23% of employees reported feeling burned out at work very often or always, while an additional 44% reported feeling burned out sometimes. In addition, they found that burned-out employees are…