CommunicationWorking under constant surveillance, every move second-guessed, is the unmistakable feeling of a micromanager. Across 33 years I have worked for them and alongside them, and watched the damage: good people who stop trying, teams that grind down. Here is…
For Executives & ProfessionalsI was raised never to burn bridges, so for 33 years I stayed in jobs long past the point I should have left, enduring toxic bosses to protect contacts I would never use. When I finally walked, almost no one…
BiasA Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera in 1975, and management decided nobody would want a camera without film, then spent three decades defending film while the revolution it created destroyed it, bankruptcy in 2012. Nobody there was stupid;…
DelegationNobody handed me a manual when I started managing teams. I learned across 33 years by getting it wrong, watching others get it wrong, and occasionally getting it right. Most management advice comes from people who never managed. Here are…
For Executives & ProfessionalsJust do your job means one thing from a boss, stop asking questions, and something very different to yourself, stop carrying everyone else's load. The distance between those two is where workplace misery breeds. Drawing on 20 years in retail…
Book MarketingMy Toastmasters speech was about my tattoos, full sleeves including a phoenix for rebirth after my wife died, and saying it out loud, in front of people, taught me about communication in ways years of writing never had. Here is…
For Executives & ProfessionalsWeeks of prep, technical diagrams, airtight projections, a proposal to save millions, and halfway through my first slide the CEO raised a hand and ended it in eight words. I knew the systems cold and lost the room anyway. The…
BiasYour workplace is one of the most sophisticated, well-funded echo chambers on earth, and nobody notices, because everyone inside is busy hitting targets and not annoying Karen from HR. Companies preach innovation and diversity of thought while running on glorified…
LeadershipMost networking groups are stale coffee and a parade of elevator pitches, everyone selling, nobody listening, a wasted morning in a hotel conference room. Eliances is the rare exception, and after nine months I still look forward to Tuesdays because…
Becoming a GhostwriterGetting paid to write is harder than it should be, but hard is not impossible. The writers who earn well are rarely the most talented, they are the ones who treat writing as a business. Here is what that actually…
For Executives & ProfessionalsEvery January it surfaces: this is the year I write my book. Every December it is still unwritten. The graveyard is full of untold stories, empire-builders and leaders whose wisdom died with them because they waited for the right time.…
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