Feb 24, 2021
Everything is awesome! Except when it’s not. Positivity, although generally valued, can have real downsides in our human relationships and in our organizations. We explore in this episode, specifically:
- What toxic positivity is and
some different forms of it
- Why toxic positivity can be harmful
- Implications for...
Feb 17, 2021
Everywhere we turn, it seems, there are amazing solutions to all of our modern problems. But when things sound too good to be true, they often are. In this episode, we unpack the problem of seemingly novel ideas in management. Specifically, we discuss:
- What are management fads and how to spot them
- Novelty bias: what...
Feb 10, 2021
Amid the chaos and many challenges we face in society, what can we do so that we don’t fall apart? We explore in this episode, including:
- Why it might feel like the world is falling apart
- What institutions are and why they matter
- How we can strengthen human institutions and move forward with hope
Links and Other...
Feb 4, 2021
Lists of trends abound. Yet this list--the Top 10 Work Trends for 2021--come from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, so it reflects the views of workplace experts from that field. In this episode, we provide:
- An intro to the top 10 work trends for 2021 as reported by the Society for Industrial...