Career and Productivity

Defeating the Boogeyman: Six Strategies Leaders Use to Create a Culture of Courage.

Part three of a four part series on fear and courage in organizations. Last week I promised that, as much as I love Stephen King as an...

Crafting the Boogeyman: Six Strategies Leaders use to Create a Culture of Fear.

Part 2 of a four part series on fear and courage in organizations Yesterday I went to see the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie...

Is there a Monster Under the Bed? Organizational Culture and the Ethic of Fear.

“Hello customers/clients/employees/constituents, this is organization X and I want you to know that we value Fear. Yep, we do everything...

Why Do We Need Tenure? Have You Ever Heard of Galileo?

Many years ago, when I was a highly opinionated undergraduate student in Speech Communication at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, I explained...

Sticks and Stones may Break your Bones, but Sexual Harassment Leaves Scars.

How Should I Talk About My Pain?

I have been in a lot of pain lately. Not the existential kind. The physical kind. It has been going on for close to five months and I am...

Hey Managers, If Your Organizational Culture is a Web, are You the Spider or the Fly?

If organizational cultures are webs of meaning, then who weaves the web? Who is caught in the web? Are managers the spider or the fly?

Destroy Your Organizational Culture in Three Easy Steps!

Here are some of the ways that organizational leaders inadvertently damage their organizational cultures.

Where do these Wicked Workplace Problems Come From?

How do we recognize wicked problems, like sexual harassment? This blog provides advice about how problems become embedded in an organization

The Word of the Year for 2023 is. . .

The Word of the Year for 2023 is Let's do This Thing.