Keeping secrets from your competition makes sense. Keeping secrets from your employees makes for some drama. And that’s not good at all. As a leader you need to be open about what you are doing. With few exceptions, the time for secrets is over. Forgot the passive aggressive manipulation, forget playing Jack off of Jill, […]

As Election Day in the United States approaches next week, political conversations in the workplace may be reaching a boiling point. Here in Asia in the last few months we have had protests in Hong Kong, a presidential election in Indonesia, new policies from the Indian prime minister, and a new round of immigration policy […]

I once shared cubicle space with a new guy in my office who was incredibly negative and cynical immediately upon his arrival. At first I thought he was just cranky after moving here from overseas, and having to find a house and get his furniture moved here and get his kids registered for school and […]