Tomorrow your Facebook news feed may be filled with videos, photos, and status updates warning of bad luck. Yes, Friday the 13th strikes a chord with so many people, for absolutely no rational reason. It just does. Superstitions abound in the world; athletes are well known for following certain rituals to ensure a great performance. […]

In “Building Effective Teams Isn’t Rocket Science, But It’s Just as Hard,” former Campbell Soup CEO and president Douglas Conant reminds us that putting teams together might be easy, but putting effective teams together is hard. His four key suggestions are: – Hire Highly Effective Team Members (so when you hire employees, look for teamwork […]

Friction is how your brakes slow your car, so you can bet that friction will put the brakes on your workplace, too. By “friction,” we are not just talking about bad feelings and awkward silences between people, though that is certainly one form of it. What we mean instead is anything in your working environment […]

At dinner the other night a couple of us were ordering small pizzas and the person I was with, who is incredibly nice, asked me what I like on a pizza so he knows what to order for himself. That seemed a bit odd, but he said, “well, that way we can share.” I like […]

A few years ago I was in Sydney and was on a bus heading back downtown from the beach on a Saturday afternoon. A group of folks got on when I did and it took me a few minutes to realize that one of my favorite actors, Michael Cera, had gotten on and was sitting […]