Have regrets? Join the club. In May 2021, management professor Anthony Klutz coined the term “The Great Resignation” to describe the avalanche of employee resignations during and after Covid. Workers saw a new era forming, with remote jobs exploding in popularity and opportunity, and the labor force shifted toward a higher demand for such work-away-from-the-office jobs. But that was then. This is now. And The Great Resignation is collapsing in a landslide of regrets. Employees’…
At the turn of the twentieth century, historians unearthed a trove of letters by Abraham Lincoln that certified one of the best-known character traits of the sixteenth President—his remarkable ability to contain his anger, his refusal to permit bitterness to take a foothold, and his ability to practice forgiveness for the greater good. Lincoln lived his adult life as simultaneously one of America’s most famous and most ridiculed public figures. He had plenty of enemies…
We are at the mid-point of the US Open Tennis Championship. But before fans even gathered at Flushing Meadows, NY, commentators were already reminiscing about last year’s women’s final and Serena Williams’ angry diatribe, in which she branded chair umpire Carlos Ramos a “liar” and a “thief.” During the 2018 final against Naomi Osaka, Williams was slapped with a code violation for receiving coaching. She disagreed, became angry, her game started to fall apart, and…
Ah, the holidays. Traveling. Black Friday. Big meals. Football. Loved ones. And, occasionally, difficult people. You know what I mean. Those family members that you see once a year because, well, that’s about all you can handle. Maybe you are blessed to have no such people in your family, distant or close. Or maybe if you do, you don’t have to see them much. But I hear from people all the time…
I agree. Racism is evil. It is a sin. Period. Whether it happens in Charlottesville or Ferguson or Charlotte or at home. But from the week’s events, plenty of people are declaring that case, so I want to move on to something else, something that we could easily miss in the fray. A lesson leaders can learn in all this. President Trump was blistered for taking too long to declare that what happened in Charlottesville…