Future of Work

How To Create A Meaningful Work Environment? Work is a big part of our identity. It reflects our values and beliefs. Leaders have a strong influence on employees’ work behavior and the relationship employees have with their work. We have identified five key elements company leaders can incorporate at their organizations to create a meaningful…

Why Should Everyone Reinvent Every Five Years? I spent the last year unlearning many concepts I had learned in the previous four decades. While we know the importance of continuous learning, we often forget the adage “what got you here won’t get you there.” It ties to Yuval Noah Harari’s idea of imagined order or our belief…

How To Create A High-Performance Work Environment? In the last post, I mentioned a book by Professor Thomas Kochan, Shaping the Future of Work: What Future Worker, Business, Government, and Education Leaders Need to Do for All to Prosper, in which he provided reasons for the challenges we are experiencing in the workplace today. He traced many of…

We Are Approaching Chaos. And That’s A Good Thing. “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein I treasure the moments in life when I meet someone or hear a keynote from a person who changes the way I think. Those moments are rare,…

This Is One Question You Should Never Ask I have never wanted to have a JOB. I even used to say that directly to my managers, which is not something I would recommend for others to do. Those conversations usually resulted in strange looks in my direction. Managers simply did not know how to respond…

Have You Become A Fake To Make It? “Fake it till you make it” is a common piece of advice people receive in business. They often hear it if they did not get a job they interviewed for or a promotion they so desperately wanted. The reason they are told so is because they are…

Would You Give Up Money To Have Meaningful Work? If you have never seen Shawn Achor’s TED talk, The Happy Secret To Better Work, you should definitely watch it. It is my all-time favorite TED talk. It is funny, informative, and immensely insightful. It will make you question what you thought you knew about work and…

Recraft Your Job To Make It More Meaningful In the last post, I mentioned Dr. Hartwig’s TEDx talk and his advice to spend less time trying to find meaningful work and more time making work meaningful. This concept ties to an idea of job crafting that Rebecca Fraser-Thill, a psychology instructor at Bates College, discussed last…

Do You Just Work For The Weekend Most Of The Time? Why are we on this elusive search for meaningful work? Was there ever a time when work used to be meaningful? If yes, then when, and how can we make work meaningful again? Dr. Hartwig, Professor of Communication, answered these questions in his insightful TEDx…

Do You Have To Be Loud At Work? I am an INFJ. Anyone familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will recognize INFJ as one of the 16 personality types. “I” stands for introverted, “N” – intuitive, “F” – feeling, and “J” – judging. It is the least common personality type in the U.S. according to…