Titles are low friction, and they give people a place to put you. They answer three questions at once: what you do, who you work for, and roughly where you sit in the pecking order….
Posts TaggedEmpowerment
Self-Awareness Is Not a Soft Skill
Research from the National Institutes of Health suggests only 10 to 15 percent of people are genuinely self-aware. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist who has studied self-awareness extensively, puts the number even lower — her…
The Experience Loop and How to Break It
You can’t get experience without a job, and you can’t get a job without experience. Everyone who has ever started a career has felt this. It feels like a design flaw. It isn’t. It’s a…
The Human Resource
{*} The AI narrator, employee view: Here are your tasks for the day. Ten items. Skill match 83%. All ten fall within your skill zone with the balance sitting in your comfort zone. You were…
Start With a Concept
There’s no shortage of ideas about how to redesign work right now. In architecture, before you touch the floor plan, you establish a concept. A single organizing idea that every subsequent decision answers to. Call…
The Wrong First Question
The first question most people get asked about work is: what do you do? It’s a reasonable question, and it’s also the wrong one to start with. What you do changes. Skills needed right now…