It’s NCAA Tournament time again, which means nothing to 90% of the civilized world. But here in the US it means three weeks of drama, gambling, and well-intentioned foolishness.  It’s also a good time to examine the role of creatively “wasting” time with social activities at work. First, we’ll start with the supposedly bad news.

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Everyone knows that if you work from home once everyone else returns to the office, you’ve obviously decided your career doesn’t matter. Right? A recent article in Bloomburg quotes Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, who has some strong thoughts on remote work and why we need to go back to the office as soon as

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by Kevin Eikenberry Because the pandemic, and all the changes it brought to our world have been so pervasive and caused so many emotions among us, it is easy to see why people would want to go back to “normal,” to the “good old days” of pre-pandemic work and life. That desire is understandable, probably

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Working from home sounds like a pretty good deal. And it is (mostly). No commute. You can work in your pajamas.  You can communicate with the world from the palm of your hand. So why are so many people literally losing sleep? Study after study shows that people who work from home are increasingly suffering

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Are your people chomping at the bit to get back to work? Are people so terrified of a few germs they refuse to return? Are they so happy working from home they’ll take any excuse to continue avoiding the office? Or is it something else? Here’s the tricky part: how do you know? A recent

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In America, companies have the once-in-a-lifetime recruitment opportunity of the Great Resignation, but not everyone is based in America. There are millions of high-skilled and hard-working talent in other countries worldwide. COVID-19 has shaken up their world too and now they are looking for opportunities to connect with companies like yours. How can you attract

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Over the past two years, we’ve all learned to work remotely. That’s been a great development for organizational productivity, but as Wayne explains, it’s not always a good thing.

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We are in an odd time when it comes to discussing work culture. Like being in the eye of a hurricane, we are stuck between the initial panicky onslaught of COVID: “Go work from home and we’ll figure it out,” and looking toward the future: “Okay, we have to figure out what we do next.”

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by Kevin Eikenberry We would all like to see the future more clearly. In times of cataclysmic change, the desire to look into the future is more important than ever. That is why the question, “What is the future of work?” is the most important question for leaders to consider right now. While the future

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by Kevin Eikenberry Uncertainty.   We all face it in some fashion every day – after all no one knows exactly what the future holds. But as we have lived/are living through the pandemic and all the associated change it has created, uncertainty is more of a watch word than ever. While we could make a

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