A couple of years back a Gallup release about employee engagement left me dumbstruck: in the firm’s survey of worker sentiment, for the first six months of 2015, engagement figures hovered steadily between 31.5% and 31.9%. What was almost more sobering was that only 40.4% of managers reported feeling engaged in their jobs. In other words, […]
That headline was a bit of clickbait, wasn’t it? I’ll explain the cute cows thing in a moment. First though, an admission: I hate writing headlines. From the time I started writing the news professionally, I’ve always hated that one specific part of the writing process. If you’ve not worked in a newsroom, this might […]
Nearly three years ago, I wrote a longform piece at LinkedIn, posing the question: “What if the advice to ‘do what you love’ has created a well of dissatisfaction among American workers?” What prompted my introspection was a Gallup study of workforce engagement which suggested that less than one-third of the U.S. workforce reported being […]
In the beginning, social media was a good thing. Sites like Facebook allowed netizens to commune with friends and family, absent the bonds of time and space. People could share anecdotes, photos and memories with one another, in some ways recreating the utility of a family or class reunion without the logistical headaches or potential […]
When discussing career advice, we’re often told some variation of the adage, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” That certainly seems like sensible advice, but when you consider that nearly 70% of U.S. workers are not “engaged” at work, it becomes clear that we’ve either ignored the wisdom of the sentiment, […]
