Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations. This week, I read about two workplaces at the opposite end of the sentience journey

Few, if any, have a strategy to intentionally create Belonging. Here’s one.

Too often, I run into executives that think they’re the smartest person in the room. In fact, I’ve seen some of them riff through all catagories of stupid in the same meeting.

Instead of being thanked and respected, they felt immediately irrelevant and soon forgotten, as if they didn’t even exist or matter.

You CANNOT “win” in sports or anywhere without the entire organization thriving.

Everyone replenishes in different ways at different times. There is no magic to exactly how much, when, for whom. However, there is work out there that confirms one can't stay in the performance zone 100 percent of the time.

The belief that the only way to work is everyone returning to campus the way we did in the past is another big lie.

What we do believe is that in thriving cultures, ALL jobs regardless of types are intentionally designed to be “good.”

Building an extraordinary culture takes a lot of hard work.

The current work environment and fight for talent does not allow the selfish luxury of scarcity thinking.

A healthy team has a constructive level of conflict. When it turns into lingering, personal hostility, the situation can rapidly move from functional to dysfunctional.

There is some confusion that belonging requires compromise and fitting in.

We’re inviting all cohorts who have participated in the IcE10 Building Extraordinary Cultures course to come reconnect, learn and have fun.

One small gesture to help others propels us forward. Start with your mother.

The “stupid” bucket seems to overflow at two prime intersections in our work life: The WELCOME and the LEAVE.

I was thinking about my dad and Garrett’s grandfather, Leo Rubis today. In spirit of his memory, I’d like to retell a story I first posted on my blog in May, 2010.