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Expertise vs. Experience - The Ridiculous Hierarchy - Where are the Experts?

Freedom Comes with Responsibility

Making the 9-5 Work For You - From Being the Victim of the 9-5 to Being Its Strategic User #68

Making the 9-5 Work For You - From Being the Victim of the 9-5 to Being Its Strategic User #68

When You Don't Think, Gurus Are Cashing In

Don't Get Lost In The Corporate World - Play The System To Your Benefit!

You Hire for Attitude But Cry About Skill Shortages

The Corporate Death Zone - The Bodies on the Top of the Career Ladder

Incompetent People Rely On Rules, Policies, Frameworks, and 3-Step Methods

Incompetence Doesn't Like Change - Competence Gap Manifest as Fear of Change

Incompetence Doesn't Like Change - Competence Gap Manifest as Fear of Change #67

We Don't Have a Clue About Employee Engagement!

Redefining Employee Engagement: A Personal Journey

Redefining Employee Engagement: A Personal Journey #66

Have We Got the Bullies Wrong? Are They the Natural Leaders?

The Male Loneliness Crisis Explored: Matriarchy, Patriarchy, Incels, and Misandry

Women Are the Baseline for Men - The Male Loneliness Crisis. Crisis for Whom? #65

Who Is the Michael O'Leary of HR?

Corporations Without Agendas & Communities and How Not to Get Lost in Life

Employee Loyalty Makes No Sense Anymore - If It Ever Existed at All

Rethinking Employee Loyalty - Inbred Competence

Rethinking Employee Loyalty - Inbred Competence #64

The Toxic Empathy Narrative is Hurting Corporate Employees

When the Solution is Looking for a Problem - Reacting to Well marketed Panic

When the Solution is Looking for a Problem - Reacting to Well marketed Panic #63

Bullying Everyone Into Caring About You

HR Is Not Your Friend: What’s Broken Inside Workplaces

The War on Talent - From 'We are a Family' to 'Everybody’s Replaceable' #62

The Inmates are Running the Asylum

👶 The Corporate Kindergarten: Welcome to the world of Kidults!

👶 The Corporate Kindergarten - The Infantilisation of Adults #61

The Real Cost of a Narcissistic Boss

From the Mountains to the Meeting Room - 🏔️ Nature's 11 Lessons for Peak Performance

From the Mountains to the Meeting Room - 🏔️ Nature's 11 Lessons for Peak Performance #60

Out With Meaningless Company Values

Expertise vs. Experience - The Ridiculous Hierarchy - Where are the Experts? #59

Expertise vs. Experience - The Ridiculous Hierarchy - Where are the Experts? #59

What Does Gen Z Want That You Don't?

Women Are the Baseline for Men - Part III

Where the Hospitality Industry Lost its Talent

📈 Beyond the Bell Curve: The Power of Hyper-Performers #58

There’s no high performance in a culture of victimhood and snowflakes

The Corporate Death Zone - The bodies on the top of the career ladder

Focus On Employee Motivation and Not On Engagement #57

The Cancel Culture at Work

HR, you are not not the mother of the workforce! #56

Live with The Contrarian HR

The Emotional Burden HR Carries

TRUST - Issues @ Work

Why your leaders are leaving!

Not Everyone Wants to Climb the Career Ladder

🤖 Recruiting's AI-Driven Future: 2025 Insights #55

Why People Leave?

Engagement Surveys Don't Work on a Silent Workforce

AI Nudges: Shaping Employee Behavior and CHRO Influence #54

Is HR Ruining Your Company's Reputation?

When HR Cannot Even Think for Their Employees & Business

Disengagement is what gets the job done in a poor environment

HR, Don't Mind the Gap: See Talent, Not Judgement #53

Period Leave - A Lazy Approach to Women's Challenges

Men vs. Women and Why We Need Both at Work

Bin Your Traditional Company Induction Day(s) #52

Corporate Control vs. Free Speech: Where’s the Line on Employee Social Media Use?

HR, Don't Mind the Gap

Probation Period Purgatory - The Unequal Power #51

I Am Not Like Them

Resilient Leadership - Too Many Safe Spaces and Very Little Resilience #50

HR Made Annual Appraisal Redundant

Has HR Been Bullied Into the Wellbeing Narrative?

The Competency Fallacy: Questioning Standard Behavioral Competencies #49

When HR's Title Finally Matches Their Job

Not Every Leader Must Must Have Influencing Skills #48

Nobody Will Ever Be Sorry for HR

🤡 The Wellbeing Gaslighting Nobody Is Buying #47

The Wellbeing Gaslighting Nobody is Buying

HR Needs Standards, Not Surveys #46

HR Needs Standards Not More Surveys or Reiki Healers

Icebreakers are Dumb and Everybody Hates Them #45

Employee Turnover is Not Bad - 🤔 Rethinking Turnover #44

HR's Ideal Turnover Rate

Bringing Order to HR's Chaos #43

HR Doesn't Have the Basics but Talking About AI

The Broken Corporate Talent Development - Chapter 7 #42

HR, Are You Lonely or Do You Have Problems to Solve?

🚨 The Rise of Corporate Refugees 🚨

Gentle Parenting Led to Gentle Managing at Work #41

HR Shouldn't Be Your Friend! They Have to Be Useful!

🤦‍♀️ Working Conditions From the Past #40

Future of Jobs Report 2025: Key Findings and Trends #39

Stop Fixing Employees When the System is Broken

Designing Your Organisation's Employee Experience #38

Corporate Fortune-Telling Practices

🤦‍♀️ HR Metrics: Measuring Impact, Not Busyness #37

The Feedback Fallacy #36

HR, Protect Your Leaders From This!

Toxic Empathy: Hurting Leaders #35

📈 Employee Experience Standards #34

Things That Don't Motivate Employees

The Very Basics of Employee Motivation You Are Missing #33