by Warren Bobrow | Jan 30, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
You may be familiar with the marshmallow challenge. It is an intriguing and engaging team building exercise that demonstrates the importance of failure in group interactions. It is all fun and everyone gets a laugh regarding how, according to an accompanying Ted Talk...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 13, 2017 | Culture, Leadership, Performance, Recruitment
This is an interesting time of the year in college football in the U.S., and not just because the final games are about to be played. As head coaches who had a poor year get fired (what should constitute the criteria for firing a college football coach is a topic for...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 18, 2017 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Performance
Corporate culture is a tricky thing. It develops over time, but we want to change it quickly when it suits us. The business media is replete with examples of great (100 best places to work!) and toxic (see Uber, supposedly) places to work. If your job is to influence...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 7, 2017 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Performance, Talent Management
Uber finds itself in the news for lots of reasons, not all of them good. The most recent story concerns the firing of 20 employees for a variety of bad behaviors to show that they were being held accountable for their actions. I am not so concerned with whether this...
