According to Hollywood, the way get ahead in business is to be very ruthless and heartless. Citizen Kane, There Will Be Blood, or The …
Hierarchy of hiring
T/F: Anything can be taught. False. Big false. Lots of things can be taught, especially if we’re talking skills, but soft skills are something …
Career Hierarchy
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the …
are we hardwired to hierarchy?
One of the main arguments we use to rationalize moronic and soul-destroying hierarchies in our workplace is that we’re biologically programmed that way i.e. it …
from hierarchy to wirearchy
A real gem from Jon Husband from last June: From Hierarchy to Wirearchy: Overview What do you do as a leader
hierarchy vs flow
[NOTE TO SELF:] The market is for “Flow” is larger than the market for “Hierarchy”. Rock on.
company hierarchy
Are you a Minder, Grinder or Finder?
There’s a pretty flat hierarchy in the legal world, so an mnemonic was designed to informally signal the ranks. There are minders, there are grinders and …
It’s cool to be kind
‘Nice’ and ‘successful’ aren’t mutually exclusive. Actually, they go together rather nicely. As a leader, your job is to unite your team, whether it …
Life without dissonance
According to Maslow’s well-known Hierarchy of Needs, the person can never feel whole without a sense of self-actualization. Self-actualization never ends — it …
Making Lemonade
Successful managers are flawed, because we’re all flawed. Great C-level executives are flawed, because we’re all flawed. Talented employees are flawed, because – you get …
mapping the pyramids
Structure has taken a new from. What we once knew as hierarchy, long-time Gapingvoid friend Jon Husband calls “wirearchy.” And John says that the big change won’t be …