This is my new blog! Here I will share stories, examples and insights about how to make the workplace more humane and engaging. I will draw on the ideas presented in my new book, Management Culture: Innovative & Bold Strategies to Engage Employees. 

I believe many people dread Mondays and live for the weekends because work is an emotional drain. Work should be energizing. It should be a place to contribute ideas, collaborate with coworkers and be productive. Most people want to do good work that matters to the world, with people they respect. Why is this experience so rare?

Too often, it is because traditional management culture reinforces top-down control, where employees are treated as merely a means to an end. Reframing the role of “boss” to one who is a facilitator rather than a dictator is the answer to fixing what is broken at work. Stay tuned for more information on how we can all help create the workplaces we long to have.