TL;DR: Everyone’s talking about culture — ping pong tables, best-place-to-work awards, offsite retreats — but the data tells a different story: most employees are happy, but few are actually engaged. And despite CEOs pouring resources into culture initiatives, more than half still describe their workplaces as toxic. The real problem isn’t culture itself. Culture is […]

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I’m currently reading Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward for the second time. I pulled it down from my bookshelf after talking to a handful of people who feel like their soul is in a wrestling match with the rest of the world. Careers in flux. Identities in crisis. Life-goals in detour. Every word of Richard’s is powerful. It’s […]

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When a story changes the way you think, the way you move through the world, and the way you see yourself and others, that’s when it takes on the role of something bigger. It’s no longer just plot and theme and character. It’s more than the formulaic circle of the hero’s journey. It becomes alive […]

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To play on the words of Karl Marx, deconstruction has become the opiate of the marketer. Or slightly more practical, we marketers have become drunk love with criticism. And as I dig into WHY that might be, I think it all circles back to Darwin >> We’re all fighting to survive, believing that if we […]

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