Ah yes. The workplace. Full of great people, colleagues, mentors… And jerks who try to bully you. Jerks who try to bully you come in a lot of flavors in the workplace. Some are obvious (they’re direct, maybe even profane) and some are less obvious (you have to watch body language, backchannel communications and more). Workplaces also come in a …
Mama Said Knock You Out: When Top Performers Get Beat Down
Last round, I shared the Tale of Kitty Clark. Click over to the original post if you didn’t catch it. Kitty was a scrappy, feared, grungy, tough-gal that ran the halls of the 1973 middle school she attended with my mother in upstate New York. My theory is the extreme cold climate made it way to her insides where it …
Anti-Recognition? Is That A Thing?
We’ve all seen the studies—heck we’ve been beat over the head by them in the last few years. Recognition will cure whatever ails your company! Over the past 10 years, that mantra has caused recognition and reward companies to spring up like patent medicines in the 1800s. And many with the same overall impact. But that is a post for …
The Tale of Kitty Clark: And Some Brand Spankin’ New Research
$3 billion to $35.4 billion. Keep that number in the back of your mind. We’ll get there in a minute. For now, I want you to use your mind’s eye to imagine the following: Long straggly, dirty blond hair, gum chewing, ripped bell bottom jeans, flannel shirts, usually bare footed, trash-talking 8th grader. Even the teachers feared her. She never …