Last time Mike and Mark discussed the tension to manage in your organization’s culture: relationship vs. results, treating people well vs. performing well. This episode unpacks the first of four statements to help you manage that tension. There are three ways you should trickle culture downhill … each with a different degree of difficulty. We would love your questions and …
How to be happy when you’re old (and save money and win Olympic gold)
A clickbaity title, but check out the three articles that came across my desk at the same time: Arthur C. Brooks has a new book in which he discusses a 1930s Harvard study that followed men into their older ages. He points out that those who were happy set habits in their younger years–seven habits, to be exact. One was …
An artist shows us how to embrace what we have
We have family in Nashville and visit two or three times a year. We often go to the Frist Art Museum, in an old Art Deco post office. It’s a beautiful container for interesting work. I’ve never seen it generate quite the interest I saw last week. LeXander Bryant is a Nashville-based artist. His exhibition shares the same space that …
Podcast 96: The Workplace Book Club – ”Nothing beside remains”
What will be your legacy? Your organization’s legacy? On this week’s Workplace Book Club, we look at a poem. (Just like AMC did for the sake of a hit TV show.) Even in the workplace, are there things that last? Mike and Mark are #twoguyswithoutlookswithbooks. The excerpt and study guide for this episode, “Nothing beside remains,” is available for free …
Podcast 95: The Workplace Book Club — No shame in tears
Charles Dickens has some thoughts on crying. He makes some blanket statements about the three ways expressing negative emotions improves you. Does it apply to the workplace? Mike and Mark are #twoguyswithoutlookswithbooks. The excerpt and study guide for this episode, “No shame in tears,” is available for free download. We would love your questions and comments (and book ideas!) for …
Why frontline workers burn out
Seth Godin has put his finger on burnout in the service industries. More on that in a minute. But first, let me share a picture of how a lot of frontline workers feel: high schoolers. It happens every year around the start of December. I noticed it about 10 years ago–but I suspect it has been going on longer than …
Podcast 94: The Workplace Book Club — Clothes make the man
Should looks matter? Do they? What about criticism? What’s the appropriate response to getting it? Shakespeare gives his 2 cents via Hamlet, and Mike and Mark are #guyswithoutlookswithbooks. The excerpt and study guide for this episode, “Clothes make the man,” is available for free download. We would love your questions and comments (and book ideas!) for future episodes: Email …
Podcast 92: Introducing the Workplace Book Club — #guyswithoutlookswithbooks
Mark puts his money where his classically educated mouth is: He and Mike read and discuss a bit of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” What in the world does this have to do with the workplace? A lot, it turns out. Do you know anybody who is proud of their defects? Welcome to #guyswithoutlookswithbooks. The excerpt and study guide for …
Can you change?
Do you believe you can change? Exercising. Flossing. Coaching. Making art. Dusting. Reading. Meditating. Can you improve habits such as these? Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self control. How about these and other virtues? Can you grow in them? Resolute. Affirming. Adaptive. Pioneering. Influencing. Steady. Conscientious. What about your very personality? Can you change it? Should you? …
Podcast 90: What does coaching look like? Mark coaches Mike
What you’re about to hear is real. It is a recording of a live coaching session between Mike and Mark. Managers are supposed to coach. But what does it look like? Sound like? We would love your questions and comments for future episodes: Email Mike and Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or view below.