This question was texted to me by an unknown source a few days ago. It was accompanied by a video of a prominent football player and...

Did you hear the news about the Miss USA debacle last week? Apparently, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA gave up on their dreams, leaving the...

By Michael Kramer and Debbie Dougherty When I first started working at the University of Missouri, I had a work mentor and role model. ...

It is Halloween, my friends, and the ghouls are about, the children are dressed up and the treats are all out. You sit by your front...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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?

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

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 Let's do This Thing.