It turns out, no surprise, that humor in the workplace (not the wokeplace) is serious business.
Two Stanford professors, Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas, actually teach a course on the subject. They say, "humor is an under-leveraged superpower in business."
Since the pandemic, business leaders have expanded their mental health benefit offerings to make their teams feel more comfortable and capable.
Still, in many cases, employees are not taking advantage of them. Instead, more people than ever are choosing to voluntarily leave a company to take their chances somewhere else, driving unprecedented levels of disengagement and turnover.
A crucial factor to understand as you enter a new leadership role is your new organization's culture.
Culture is what people and organizations care about. Misalignment to culture is one of the biggest reasons new leaders fail. Unfortunately, cultures are notoriously difficult to decipher.
CEOs are frustrated, and CFOs, even more so. Companies have been spending some $8 billion a year on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)–and see remarkably few results.
Many corporate diversity efforts have failed because they are using ineffective tools. Perhaps the most common is to hold sincere conversations about the importance of inclusion. Sincere conversations are a good thing but they are not an effective organizational change strategy.