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Delta Airlines announced it was sharing $1.6b of profits with its employees payable on Valentine's Day. Some people throw around these numbers like this without enough context. It equates to a two-month bonus for each of its 90,000 people. Pretty good, right? Delta...

I hate the phone. It's a new hate. I am old enough to remember when the phone was it (except for face to face). Back then the phone was fine. Things are different now.  It's actually not the phone, it's phone calls. It's the audacity of the interruption. Sometimes the...

Your team members are after a feeling.  They want to feel like they are important. They want to feel like their work matters. They want to feel like they are in the fold. They want to feel that their leader has their back. They want to feel like it's ok to share and...

"There is no bad weather, only bad clothes." I heard this somewhere and wrote it down. Rang true for me at the time I recorded it. Still rings true. It reminds me of a common problem. Many of us get derailed from achieving big stuff because of small stuff. The half...

I would rather have two years of you at 100% than 10 years of you at 70%. Energy matters more than duration. I would rather we discuss your evolving career right now than pretend you will be here forever. We both know you are going somewhere. Why don't we talk about...

Default to making it easier in the long term. Every problem has at least two solutions (hey, not talking about math). One solution temporarily solves the problem. A different solution permanently solves the problem.  Temporarily solving the problem happens fast with...

We are competing? One on one?  I don't like my chances.  Not because I don't believe in myself. Not because I think you are that awesome.  But after a few decades I have learned that stuff happens. I have bad days. I get sick. I lose motivation. I get tired. More...

If people aren't moved by your presentation, it's not because you lack the information. It's not because you didn't have enough statistics, data, or pie charts. It's not because the line graphs were the wrong color. It's not because the font was too big or too small...

The other day I saw some toddlers playing together. It reminded of me of how my kids played together when they were young.  The same thing struck me watching these kids play together that often struck me when I watched my own kids play together. In a word: Kindness. ...

Quick tactic to help you navigate the week: Let some comments go unanswered. You know that one barb someone stuck in their email, or that one eye roll so robust it had the quality of words? Surely you have been a victim of some passive-aggressive comment designed to...

How do you fire someone who is good at their job?  This whole thing with Jason Garrett bothers me, but not in an obvious way. Jason Garrett, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys was fired recently. He was a good head coach.  The Cowboys were 8-8 for the 2019 NFL...

"If each adult sent one less email a day, Britain could reduce its carbon output by 16,433 tonnes - equal to more than 81,000 flights from London to Madrid."  This quote from a World Economic Forum article really took me by surprise. It might have been because I have...