With 2017 in full-swing and the world of work changing faster than it ever has before, it is no surprise that the tools we use to communicate are changing equally quickly. E-mails are dying as fast as Facebook. Slack is rising like Snapchat, and speed and… Read More »2017 Is the Year of the Online Summit: The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Provide Value and Impact
At a conference I spoke at in Beverly Hills in 2016, Guruduth Banavar, Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Cognitive Computing for IBM (also leading the cognitive systems for Watson) said that 90% of the information on the internet today was put there in the… Read More »One Key To Being A Thought-Leader And Not Just A Content Creator
At the risk of sounding brash or controversial, I’m just going to say it: Traditional diversity and inclusion is dead. Ok hold up. It isn’t dead, but the way we’ve been talking about it is dying. We need to talk about cultural diversity in the workplace… Read More »Why We Need to Talk About Diversity and Inclusion in a New Way
Look, if you’re anything like me, you want to fit in. You want to be a part of a group, you want to feel connected with the people around you, and you want to belong. Am I doing OK so far? If yes, great. If… Read More »Xennial Generation? No Thanks.
Feeling a little lonely today, those of you born in 1976 or 1984? If I were you, I sure would be. You weren’t among the lucky ones that were just looped into a new micro generation called the Xennials – those born between 1977 and… Read More »Coining a New Generation: Gen7684
It seems to me that every time we open the paper, Twitter, or visit here on LinkedIn, that there is another piece telling us how each generation is different. We so often read that Millennials think or act a certain way, that Gen Z is… Read More »The Biggest Problem With Generational Differences
Recently, a Harvard Business Review article talked at length about the loneliness epidemic at work. This unfortunate reality found that nearly 50% of employees reported being lonely, and shortened our lives by the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Unfortunate would certainly be an… Read More »Loneliness, The Honeymoon Phase Of Technology, And A Commitment From Me To You. Join Me?
Slack, WhatsApp, Intranet, and hey, even texting- all things we didn’t have even fifteen years ago. The evolution of communication has been nothing short of amazing, yet I look around and see overall engagement in the workplace isn’t increasing, loneliness is on the rise, and we (generally… Read More »Where The Evolution Of Communication Has Gone Wrong
Too often we hear the seemingly invaluable advice ‘follow (or find) your passion’. On the surface it sounds right, but if we spend our lives searching for that one thing, the chances of us finding it are slim-to-none. Instead, imagine we looked for the things that made… Read More »Are You Trying To Find Your Passion? Stop.
We can all agree that the world of work is moving faster now than it ever has before because of the technological advancements in the past months, years, and decades. And while this technology has undoubtedly made us more efficient and productive, it also has… Read More »Three Ways to Increase Belonging at Work