Paying back $24,000 to my previous employer and the absurdity of bonuses
I wrote a $24,000 check to my former employer to leave early. It taught me what bonuses really are: tools to keep unhappy people from walking away.
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I wrote a $24,000 check to my former employer to leave early. It taught me what bonuses really are: tools to keep unhappy people from walking away.
A gift economy is a different way of engaging than through transactions, prices and salaries. It can help build more connection and generosity in the world
Is it worth it to get a top-tier MBA? $150k+ for an MBA?! It depends how you look at it. Increasingly, there are better and cheaper options.
Paul Millerd had a fancy job, high income and decided to quit his job and leave it all behind. Why? To figure out what really matters.
In a 12-second clip, Steve Kerr demonstrates five leadership secrets most managers never learn. People can only be led, not managed.
Most money on L&D is wasted. What should we do instead? Stop creating more trainings for starters.
Stop asking 'what do you want to do?' Instead, assess your skills, define success on your terms, and reframe what risk really means.
As organizations grow, they raise the hiring bar and start rejecting the very people who built them. The costliest mistake isn't a bad hire - it's the one you never made.
Six reasons companies fail to unleash human potential including an obsession with shareholder value, a limited lens of human behavior and more...
Stop chasing the next job title and start asking how you want to work, interact with people, and spend your time. The 'how' matters more than the 'what.'
If you valued your personal time at $1,000,000 an hour, would you still chase that promotion? A mental model for protecting what matters.
Human performance follows a power law, not a bell curve. Companies that ignore this lose their best people and wonder why they're full of average talent.