The Reasons For #QuietQuitting are clear, right? Individuals are frustrated because they want to give their full energy, creativity, time, and enthusiasm to their organizations and leaders. Wrong. Neither party is “giving” anything. Employment is a buy-sell proposition. #Humans want to sell their skills. #Employers want to buy their skills. …

“Wall Street Journal reports that “Companies Are Cutting Back on Maternity and Paternity Leave. Many employers dial down how much paid time off they give new moms and dads.” It’s an intriguing social phenomenon. Much of the brouhaha over WFH revolved more around power and control than profitability, as corporate…

It seems simple enough to show how the six interrogatory words relate to one another and are often interdependent and even interchangeable. It’s easy to see that they’re not only similar and related but can even represent a way to form one single big question. There are two kinds of…

18 THINGS CONSULTING ACADEMICS MAY RECOGNIZE THEY’VE GOTTEN WRONG OVER THE DECADES: #3. “Framing [interventions] as part of the (tedious and misplaced) practitioner/academic divide/gap debate.” — Prof. Org Psych, [RB], UK A popular Organizational Psychology professor and consultant in the UK recognized that corporate interventions employing academics as consultants are…

The first statement of realization (of 18 Statements) from a well-known academic is shown in the slide above. “The science” tends toward a methodological narrow focus to facilitate the ability to demonstrate correlation in the research. Scientists want to publish in a way that establishes validity with peers. …

When I spotted this post from a group called “European Leadership,” my jaw dropped. For even the neophyte student of history, the most amazing aspect of this post is that it is so blatantly NOT the historic European leadership gestalt (i.e., form or shape) that it constitutes the highest irony. …

A psychology professor in the UK recently described a problem of “low adoption” to characterize a world of academe in which theories abound, and proposals for applying theory proliferate in the form of off-campus consulting, but self-adoption of their proposed instrumentalities ultimately fails. Why is that? One esteemed sociologist is…