Ted Lasso is a great show. If you haven’t watched it, you have a few days to catch up on this cultural phenomenon before Season 2 comes out on July 23rd! The show isn’t just entertaining and inspiring, it also offers an abundance of life lessons. Last week, Ben Cohen … Continue reading
I’ve been lucky enough to manage people for most of my career. I started right out of college at an insurance company with a small team and it blossomed from there. Every role over the next few decades involved people management. While I loved all my roles, one in particular … Continue reading
“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and to know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot wrote this line in 1943, but it aptly applies to our post-pandemic work world. So many things that were viewed as mundane … Continue reading
This is a headline that I never expected to see, much less write. There is no greater dumpster fire in professional sports than the NY Jets. For their fans, of which I have the misfortune to be amongst, they have been less a sports team and more a seasonal source … Continue reading
I love to watch golf on TV. My kids laugh at me, because when they walk into my room late at night, I am frequently watching replays that I viewed earlier in the day. This, of course, happened this last weekend with the US Open and Bryson DeChambeau’s impressive win. … Continue reading
Out of sight can mean out of mind. Without your physical presence around team members, I hope that’s not the case for your team’s work productivity. However, it could be. Here are a couple of things to think about to help ensure productivity and not lose a beat as you and your team … Continue reading
Tell Them About Your L Train The shock of this pandemic, the confusion it has caused, and the fear that has resulted have rattled society’s foundations. To say emotions are running high is an extreme understatement. New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, knows this. He is hyper-aware that his constituents are … Continue reading
The playwright George Bernard Shaw once observed that “to be in hell is to drift, and to be in heaven is to steer.” In the two months since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared a public health emergency, many organizations have found their businesses adrift on … Continue reading
As we confront the Coronavirus, physical separation is essential, a non-negotiable strategy. Social distancing is the opposite: unnecessary and complicating. We mustn’t confuse the two. In her now-famous Ted Talk, Brene Brown states that human beings are social animals. We fear disconnection and isolation. The idea of distancing ourselves socially runs … Continue reading
A confluence of forces has changed all of our worlds overnight. Most leaders and their companies have been sprinting fast in a robust corporate world and just smashed into a brick wall. How do you communicate THAT? That’s our business, and at Decker, we are communicating directly to our employees … Continue reading
