by Ken Giffin | Aug 12, 2025 | career advice, corporate behavior, self-improvement, skills development
I’m going to start this blog post with my own cautionary tale of poor storytelling while interviewing for my first job many years ago. I was fortunate that the business school from my undergraduate days (Indiana University) had a strong recruiting organization that...
by Ken Giffin | Jul 17, 2025 | change management, employee engagement
We came across a 2023 Forbes article recently by Sherzod Odilov that addresses the resistance to change in the workplace. The author had worked with over 200 companies to help them manage change, and saw a common thread of employees hesitating over the uncertainty...
by Ken Giffin | Jun 18, 2025 | employee engagement, employee retention
A recent conversation with a leader who had just lost one of their superstar employees after five years of great contributions, made me stop and ponder this question: How well do you really know your employees and their overarching goals? In this case, leadership had...
by Ken Giffin | May 20, 2025 | corporate behavior, employee empowerment, leadership, operational efficiency
Does this complaint from an employee sound familiar to you? I log into email and instant messaging first thing in the morning, and I’m already behind in reading 20 new messages. After scanning the emergencies and issuing some temporary replies, I start the first of...
by Ken Giffin | Apr 22, 2025 | agile, leadership, operational efficiency, productivity
Agile is a proven framework in the world of development. The agile process helps development teams provide rapid responses and feedback to their projects, and it opens up opportunities to assess the project’s direction in the middle of the development cycle....
