COMPANY VALUES: THE MOST POPULAR FICTION IN BUSINESS
Are your company values showing up in hiring decisions, performance reviews, leadership behaviour, and everyday conversations?
Category brand as culture
THE VOICE AT THE DOOR
“I don’t let the old guy in.” That line stayed with me, as a 65 year old guy, because it has nothing to do with age and everything to do with attitude and identity.
LEADERSHIP: NEVER HAVE A GUY LIKE BOB WORKING FOR YOU
David Novak, the former CEO of Yum! Brands, was asked in an interview, “What’s the secret to great leadership?” “I’ll tell you the secret to great leadership,” Novak said. “It’s to never have a certain type of person working for…
Always give them an A
Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. Imagine if we were to apply this…
Death by overwork
In Japan, 10% of male deaths are job-related. They even have a special word for it, karōshi, death by overwork. Yep, death by overwork. Karōshi was invented in 1978 to refer to an increasing number of people suffering from fatal…