Are we a team in the business world? All of us? What about “in tech”? Are we trying to solve problems and advance? Are we having a common goal to grow and achieve more? How safe are we to do so? Is there any Psychological Safety at the level of the larger business team context?…Read More

One of the most ironic things about the much-needed people work is that it’s hard for everyone to get started and there’s a lot of “human resistance” to doing it. We talk a lot about ways to reduce some of the HumanDebt™and how, on a quest to do so, most enterprises have to overcome immense…Read More

This week we explored command and control further and its relationship with courage. In the midst of this heavy topic, we also posted this interview with the inimitable Bryan Finster so make sure you give that a watch. There are so many absolutely fascinating individuals with their hearts in the right place it makes us…Read More

When you listen to today’s Superhero you can tell why he is being featured – his calm and assured demeanour only serves to further underline the passion he carries. For the work and for the people. Most importantly, the fearlessness. It is his lack of fear that I need us to focus on today.  VIDEO We…Read More

We say this every week – as an organisation that is hoping to be highly competitive in the new world of work, as a company eager to minimise the HumanDebt™ in order to win, what you must do most urgently is to empower your teams with tools and permission and then distribute the human work…Read More

“Have a productive day!” was how one of the Severance bosses used to end conversations and their thunderous expression dripping with contempt and cutting tone made it into both an insult and a menace. It’s unimaginable that adults could be treated that way by their employers, right? Purely fiction, yes? Not even close to reality,…Read More

At first, I had thought I would address some of the comments I got on yesterday’s article in today’s one but on second thought I will not. I stand by everything I said. This will cost Elon and it will further cost anyone who thinks he speaks sense. Just watch. The vast majority of the defenders…Read More

Everyone is familiar with the now-famous Elon email asking his employees to physically come back to the office and the reactions to it are many and very interesting.  While most people are in shock and rightfully rolled their eyes, there are some defending him. The main argument is that he can do whatever he chooses…Read More

This week I busied myself with attacking a big topic on the other newsletter: the BS of the NPS measurement and unsurprisingly that didn’t go down well. In particular when it comes to anyone using it for any type of internal measurement be it satisfaction or experience or even performance. I am going to leave…Read More