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Photo by Peter Lloyd on Unsplash. Such a mood. The other day, a post from a self-professed LinkedIn "influencer" popped up in my feed and it was an apparently unironic celebration of RTO and pizza parties. And I sat there like, "This person cannot be serious. Are...

Photo credit to https://unsplash.com/@v2osk. I've spoken many times before about what I unaffectionately call the Digital Panopticon. This is a reference to Jeremy Bentham's construct of a panopticon, which is a building that is designed for surveillance. The occupants don't necessarily know if they are being...

Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on Unsplash Ahh yes. The good ol' cube farm. Who misses that? Prolly no one. Or at least no sane person. Last week, LinkedIn asked an interesting question: "Teams: Do they still work?" You can find the article here: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/teams-do-they-still-work-5846690/. Of course there...

These days, that is definitely a big question. I am happy to announce that I was recently interviewed by The Fairmont Post regarding this very question. You can read the article in its entirety here: https://fairmontpost.com/should-job-hoppers-leap-one-more-time/ Boilerplate I am not: An economist A financial planner or advisor ...

Photo by andrewtneel on Unsplash. Years ago, one of my clients told me a story I've never forgotten. This client worked for a refinery (you'd recognize the name if I said it) and they had recently hired an engineering manager. Or so they thought. This was...