Trigger warning: mental health problems, especially depression. I am sure at some point in your life you’ve woken up on a Monday morning with a terrible sore throat and a fever. You quickly realize that there is no way you’ll be making it to your 9 am meeting across...
Recently I published the second part of a two-part blog series on corporate psychopaths who are basically wolves in sheep’s clothing. Often these wolves are at the top of the corporate food chain and are in senior/executive roles. In the current article, I will...
For many weeks now, we’ve seen a steady stream of articles describing how people, often women, have been mistreated in various workplaces by men … and how it has persisted for a long, long time. While I’ve seen that happen firsthand, I have also seen women mistreated...
Regular readers of this weekly blog will have noticed that I don’t shy away from sensitive or complicated topics (e.g., bullying and burnout, domestic violence at work, coded language, and scapegoating). Last week, in part one of this blog series, I wrote about...
We want to assume that the places where we work are a safe space. We believe this because businesses usually carry a certain level of formality, respectability, and boundaries. That’s what younger people entering the workforce should expect as a given, and yet the...
