I attended a retirement dinner last week. An honor. Not one person or even two, but three men honored on this night. My wife works for this company, one of the largest in the world. It is a place that people start a career and decide to stay. These retirees reached 34, 34, and 35... Continue Reading →
Footing, Focus and Fifty
I am back. I stepped away for a few weeks with no intent to write any blog posts. I briefly escaped the winds of change at the office to walk into the face of a cold wind welcoming my son to Boston and his new college life. I am proud of my son to leave one... Continue Reading →
Thoughts From the Week … Where We Sit
Thoughts from the past week ... Back on the bike this week commuting to work. Not even 30 degrees as I left the house each day, but I firmly believe in the line, "there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad equipment." Well I did test that this week and learned a new... Continue Reading →
Here Be Dragons
Change is here for everyone. Everyone. While something new and exciting is near for many at work, for others our time working together is ending. Our next step forward can be viewed as a beginning or and ending. Yet for all, it is a step into the unknown. Be careful. That is unexplored territory and... Continue Reading →
The Distance Between Us
Twenty two feet. That is the distance from my office door to my chair. Quite a walk. Presently, I sit in a corner office, but an office move lies ahead. After several years in large corner offices, I will move to a smaller office, half the distance, door to chair. Yet it is still too... Continue Reading →
Workplace Migration, Caves to Commons
Recently I watched a video detailing an interesting annual ritual conducted at Conover Tuttle Pace, a Boston ad agency. Each summer everyone in the firm packs up and moves to a new workspace for three months. Each of the 55 employees blindly draws a number and hopes to draw a low number so they can... Continue Reading →
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