Work Life

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

“Just do it.” That’s what Nike’s new return-to-office mandate amounts to. The sportswear giant recently informed employees that beginning in January, they will be required to come into the company’s headquarters four days a week. The company said in a statement that there’s “power and energy that comes from working together in person,” which is a valid perspective.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

From Gary Sharpe, PhD/Out-Thinking Parkinson’s : “In part one , we explored the basic concepts of personal boundaries, and violations or impingements of these. The following quote is from the summary of part one. ‘We have seen that early life experiences determine whether we have healthy, compromised, or non-existent personal boundaries as adults.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

This week, we’ve had a collective front-row seat to the Sturm und Drang at OpenAI, in which we witnessed a dramatic dismissal and return of a CEO, an interim female tech leader installed, an employee uprising to get the board to step down, and the easy glide of the fired former CEO into an open leadership position at Microsoft—all within 48 hours.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Do you ever feel like if you were to ask a coworker how they’re doing, you’d open a Pandora’s box that robs you of getting work done? You’re not alone. Since COVID-19, things beyond our control constantly get in the way of work. The pandemic itself pushed us out of our offices. That was followed by the presidential election, the war in Ukraine, the BLM movement, the stop-the-Asian-hate hashtag, the Supreme Court abortion ruling, and now the terrorist attacks in Israel

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