Great work, bad workplace?
What if you’re doing meaningful work in the midst of a nasty, dysfunctional workplace? In other words, the work is good, maybe even great, but the work environment is unpleasant or even toxic. And what...
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Posturing vs. authenticity in our work lives
If you’ve spent a lot of time in meetings, seminars, conferences, and other such gatherings that are part of our information society, then you’ve probably encountered the contrasts between posturing...
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Workshopping human dignity
HumanDHS workshop, December 2014 (Photo: Anna Strout) It’s not often that one can attend an academic/professional gathering that includes separate sessions on improvisational expression and the...
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After 700 harassing robocalls from Bank of America, couple wins $1 million...
(Graphic courtesy of Publicdomainvectors.org) From Good Morning America, here’s a story about a couple who won a $1 million judgment against Bank of America for subjecting them to some 700 threatening...
View ArticleSelective praise as a form of workplace marginalization
Have you ever worked in an organization where some people receive lavish praise from higher ups for the most modest of achievements, while others do remarkable things but receive, at best, an...
View ArticleRecycling: Five years of December
Each month I’m reaching into the archives to highlight a piece from that month of each past year. Especially for those of you who missed them the first time around, I hope they provide interesting and...
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On being a change agent: The role of “Edgewalker”
In her 2006 book, Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and Break New Ground, author Judi Neal writes that the “Edgewalker is someone who walks between the worlds,” an...
View ArticleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Cyber-harassment is not protected free...
In a decision affirming the convictions for criminal harassment of William and Gail Johnson, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that cyber-harassment is not protected free speech...
View ArticleIn addition to rethinking abundance, let’s spread it around a little better
Economist Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, suggests in an op-ed piece for the New York Times that we embrace abundance without excessive...
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Work in progress: A quick look ahead to 2015
OK, so I’m not a big holiday decorator Thank you… …for your continued readership! I look forward to a seventh year of writing blog posts and publishing your comments. For better and for worse, the...
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