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Leadership Lessons #5: What Teachers Know About Workplace Fights (opens the original)
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I spent an afternoon a while back watching a kindergarten teacher run her class, and I’ve thought about it more or less constantly ever since. In three hours she resolved fourteen conflicts. Toy disputes, hurt feelings, someone taking someone else’s chair, all the usual chaos that comes from putting twenty small humans in one room and hoping for the best. Not once did she raise her voice, send anyone away, or say the thing I have absolutely said in a work context: “can you two just sort it out b
HR Reality Check #6: The Promotion That Nobody Wanted (opens the original)
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This is a made up story. None of these people are real. Just a fiction to prove a point.Rachel was the best software engineer on the team, and I don’t mean that the way people say it about someone who’s merely quite good. She was fast and careful at the same time, which is rare, brilliant at the sort of complex problem that makes everyone else run away, she mentored the juniors without being asked, and her projects had the unusual property of actually working. So of course we promoted her to Sen
Employee Experience #6: The End Of Generic Wellbeing (opens the original)
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Let me be fair to whoever built your wellness programme, because they almost certainly meant it. The yoga classes, the meditation app, the gym discount, somebody fought a budget battle for those and thought they were doing something kind. And they were, a bit. The trouble is the kindness is aimed at nobody in particular, and by 2026 people expect support that reflects the financial, emotional and life-stage mess of their actual lives, rather than perks that assume everyone’s problems have the sa
Q&A #3: Asking For A Raise During Budget Cuts (opens the original)
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From an email, Jordan asks:I’ve been in my role for 18 months and I’m doing work way beyond my job description. My manager keeps saying I’m doing great, but when I mention compensation, she says budgets are frozen. How do I ask for a raise when the company’s being tight with money? Should I just wait it out or push harder?Hello Jordan. First, the short version: tight budgets are not a reason to work below your worth indefinitely, and “she says I’m doing great” plus “there’s no money” is a combin
PP View #6: Return-To-Office Mandates Are About Control, Not Performance (opens the original)
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Every RTO announcement cites the same two things, productivity or collaboration, and every time I want to ask the same awkward follow-up: what actually happened to your business while everyone was at home? Revenue grew, products shipped, customer satisfaction held or improved, and the data on remote productivity has been pointing the same way for years. If productivity were genuinely the problem you’d see it in the results. aaaaand, you don’t. What you see is executives who are uncomfortable man
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