Your coworker, the flat-earther

There is an important point about employee engagement below. But first, a quote. Do any of the following coworkers sound like people you have known? If you can get past the old-fashioned (and hilarious) writing style, this list of bank employees will give you a smile: The place was full of quaint characters. There was West, who had been requested …

Automotive disruption is (finally) here?

Another for my automotive friends: The data and historical examples are sobering in colleague Dr. Dan Edgar’s predictions of disruption for automotive retail. For example, BEVs have a life cycle of 500,000 to 1 million miles. Hmm. Great organizations test their own assumptions. What here challenges your team’s current thinking? What do you want to do with it?

Horn Sections Make Rock Better: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

I’ve been thinking about mirrors lately. I, and many of my clients, have been taking a look in the mirror. It’s a healthy–and painful–thing to do. I’ve also been reading Peter Senge‘s “The Fifth Discipline,” a classic text my father often referenced in his work, from my teens to the present. Senge argues that the truly effective organization is the …

Hanging out at airports with Gen Z

I’m not quite sure what to make of this Vice article about “Airport Culture.” The short version: Generation Z in London have been taking the bus to the airport and using it as a hangout. It’s cheap. It’s safe. And you can people-watch or even connect with strangers–many of whom are in the middle of major life events. It is …

Another good reason to pause

“Beware the ides of March.” It’s when that notable executive, Julius Caesar, was assassinated. We’re past March 15. In fact, in a week, March will have one day left. Think about that. We’ve “just” come off a hard year, one many felt was an absolute slog of a marathon. And suddenly, we are 25-percent DONE with the year after that …