Wagging the Dog
Commands Are Not Control You cannot be a self-respecting Brooklyn hipster and not have a fur baby. It’s a thing. They are as essential as flannel and irony....
Memento Mori (Ep. 10)
The bold entrepreneurial journey of Attilio D’Agostino. This is less of a blog post and more of a sales pitch. What I really want you to do is...
How to Build a Space for Humans (Ep. 9)
When Ken Crabiel first walked into the Central Location of the St. Louis Public Library, he was in awe of the Carnegie-style space. When you imagine a major...
Laurence Hillman and Richard Olivier: The Human Language for Leadership (Ep. 8)
You have probably taken one of those Left Brain Versus Right Brain Tests online. And you found yourself running down a rabbit hole of pop psychology and leadership...
Cy Wakeman: Don’t Bring Your Whole Self to Work (Ep. 7)
There is not a lot that gets by Cy Wakeman. The speaker and founder of Reality-Based Leadership has a background in cognitive behavior therapy. She has worked in...
Scott Ginsberg: The Boldness to Reinvent (Ep. 6)
On a random day in 2001, my friend got on a bus to get to his part-time gig in Portland. It was a day like most others in...
When Cleverness and Wit Won’t Fix Your Problem
Hint: They rarely fix anything Back in February, KFC had won the internet. The Yum! brand reversed the script on a big snafu in their U.K. locations. Over...
The Future of Work Culture
WorkHuman 2017 Day Two Before employees leave an organization, there is an odd ritual that tends to take place in most organizations: the exit interview. It is then...
Work Like Humans Do
WorkHuman 2017 Day One The conference is called Workhuman. And on the first day of this gathering of the most forward-thinking minds in workplace culture, Chaz Bono —...
You Don’t Run Your Race. It Runs You.
Just a few weeks after his father died, Dad sent me an email with a registration link for the GO! St. Louis Marathon. It was January of 2005,...