Co-written with John Kennedy at True Calling Canada. In a recent CBS News piece, President of the Marketing Firm Yankelovich, Jay Walker-Smith stated that the number of advertisements we see in day has gone from roughly 500 in the 1970’s to as many as 5000 a day today. What this tells us is that the world we live in today…

Co-written with Simon Howard of DRYVER. Millennials. Ugh. The worst, right? I mean, we all know that they can’t work, live in their parents’ basement and play xbox or watch Netflix all day, can’t hold a job, and aren’t loyal. Or was it that they are the generation that wants too much at work, can’t get away…

Co-written with Ashley Anderson of DRYVER. Last week, it happened. The first autonomous delivery of 50,000 Budweiser was made. They traveled 120 miles from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. Obviously an amazing feat, what does this mean for the future of jobs in in this field? Well, first let’s take a look at the numbers. According to alltrucking.com,…

Co-written with Simon Howard of DRYVER. It seems to be that everywhere we look, there is a new title for a similar role. We’ve seen VP of HR, People and Culture, Happiness, and People. We’ve seen titles that have ‘Ninja’ in them, and organizations that are stripping titles as much as they can. Some organizations are expanding…

Originally posted on Influencive.com We all have that friend that recently went to *insert beautiful destination here*, right? You know, that one that just got back from Rome and that THE BEST time? Or how about the one that just got back from the Gold Coast of Australia with that nice tan while you and I were…

The One Question We Need To Ask While Being Recruited But Don’t After working with DRYVER for a couple of years, we’ve seen a lot of questions, and asked even more. While looking at cultural optimization, and helping clients better understand that a universal best culture doesn’t exist, we learned quickly that communication about the…

On December 5th, Amazon released a video of what we all thought might be coming, but in fact is a lot closer than we think. Actually, it is already here. In the video that lasts less than two minutes, we see people scan into the grocery story using an app on their phone and then pick…

Here we are, at the end of what many have called one of the worst years in recent memory. If your social feeds look anything like mine, all we’re seeing is one negative post after the other. Perhaps this is what sells, is shared more, or is easier to relate to, or perhaps this truly…

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 simplicity are always something we try to improve on. Think…

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 past two years. In addition, Cisco said that 2016 was…