ERIC’S NOTEBOOK

50 Things I’ve Learned In The Past 30 Days
I remember flying to LAX on the morning of March 13th. The NBA had cancelled ...
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The Future of Work is….
Whatever We Want it to Be It (almost literally) happened overnight. One day we were ...
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The Death Of Employee Engagement And What Comes Next
When I was 14 years old, I remember sitting in the driver’s seat of an ...
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50 Things I’ve Learned In The Past Month
The last month has brought more change than I expected the next five years to ...
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Welcome to the Future of Work
How the Early Arrival of the Future of Work is Foreshadowing for the Workplace of ...
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How Do I Make Remote Work More Enjoyable? Consider One-Degree Shifts
How Do I Make Remote Work More Enjoyable? Consider One-Degree Shifts In studying workplace culture ...
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Engaging the Next Generation of Work: 5 Points to Consider
Engaging the Next Generation of Work: 5 Points to Consider Engagement has traditionally be seen ...
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Breaking Down Generational Barriers
Breaking Down Generational Barriers It isn’t possible to generalize a generation, and we need to ...
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Find the Right Employees Through Storytelling
Find the Right Employees Through Storytelling Originally posted from SME Strategy The British Columbia Construction Association ...
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The Increasing Importance of Culture
The Increasing Importance of Culture Co-written with Daniel Dubois In recent years we’ve seen a reinvention ...
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5 Things to Consider When Recruiting in 2016
5 Things to Consider When Recruiting in 2016 With help from Kraig Docherty With that said ...
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Bigger than Work
Bigger than Work It is a dream of mine that when we talk about people, ...
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We can’t fix culture, but we can rethink our assumptions
We can't fix culture, but we can rethink our assumptions In this series, professionals at ...
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Why We Shouldn’t Hustle
Why We Shouldn't Hustle The frequency in which I hear people talk about their ‘hustle’, ...
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Why Knowing More and Understanding Less Is Now My Biggest Fear
Why Knowing More and Understanding Less Is Now My Biggest Fear At the risk of ...
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Why We Can’t Generalize Millennials
Why We Can't Generalize Millennials Millennials: You either love them or hate them, and chances ...
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Five Questions Students Should Be (But Aren’t) Asked
Five Questions Students Should Be (But Aren't) Asked Ilona Dougherty, founder of Apathy is Boring and recent ...
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How Work-Life Integration Proves That We Have To Love Our Jobs
How Work-Life Integration Proves That We Have To Love Our Jobs Here we are, the ...
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Priorities Have To Be Established, And Other Business Lessons I Learned From Olympians
Priorities Have To Be Established, And Other Business Lessons I Learned From Olympians Co-authored with Connor ...
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A Universal ‘Best Culture’ Doesn’t Exist
A Universal 'Best Culture' Doesn't Exist ‘The Top 100 Places To Work’, ‘Best Cultures in ...
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Volunteering and the Future of Talent Attraction
Volunteering and the Future of Talent Attraction The way we work and talk about work ...
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Why My Lunch Will Never Be Better Than Great
Why My Lunch Will Never Be Better Than Great I first wrote this short piece ...
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Why Your Company Needs To Flip Your Recruiting Process On Its Head
Why Your Company Needs To Flip Your Recruiting Process On Its Head Co-written with Sam Sawchuk ...
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Why ‘Authentic’ is the Word of 2016
Why 'Authentic' is the Word of 2016 Well, it has to be. We’re living in ...
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Why Storytelling Will Land Your Best Hire Yet
Why Storytelling Will Land Your Best Hire Yet Co-written with John Kennedy at True Calling Canada. In a ...
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Why The Millennial ‘Problem’ Isn’t A Millennial Problem
Why The Millennial ‘Problem’ Isn’t A Millennial Problem Co-written with Simon Howard of DRYVER. Millennials. Ugh. The worst, ...
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What 50,000 Autonomously Delivered Beer Means For Jobs Of The Future
What 50,000 Autonomously Delivered Beer Means For Jobs Of The Future Co-written with Ashley Anderson of DRYVER. Last ...
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How The Role Of Human Resources Is Changing
How The Role Of Human Resources Is Changing Co-written with Simon Howard of DRYVER. It seems to be ...
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How The ‘Postcard Effect’ Illustrates Things Might Not Be Exactly What They Seem
How The 'Postcard Effect' Illustrates Things Might Not Be Exactly What They Seem Originally posted ...
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The One Question We Need To Ask While Being Recruited But Don’t
The One Question We Need To Ask While Being Recruited But Don't After working with ...
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Optimism and the Future of Jobs feat. Amazon Go
Optimism and the Future of Jobs feat. Amazon Go On December 5th, Amazon released a video of ...
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What The Buzzword Of 2017 Can Be, If We Choose It To Be
What The Buzzword Of 2017 Can Be, If We Choose It To Be Here we ...
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2017 Is the Year of the Online Summit: The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Provide Value and Impact
2017 Is the Year of the Online Summit: The Easiest, Cheapest Way to Provide Value ...
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One Key To Being A Thought-Leader And Not Just A Content Creator
One Key To Being A Thought-Leader And Not Just A Content Creator At a conference ...
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Why We Need to Talk About Diversity and Inclusion in a New Way
Why We Need to Talk About Diversity and Inclusion in a New Way At the ...
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Xennial Generation? No Thanks.
Xennial Generation? No Thanks. Look, if you’re anything like me, you want to fit in ...
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Coining a New Generation: Gen7684
Coining a New Generation: Gen7684 Feeling a little lonely today, those of you born in ...
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The Biggest Problem With Generational Differences
The Biggest Problem With Generational Differences It seems to me that every time we open ...
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Loneliness, The Honeymoon Phase Of Technology, And A Commitment From Me To You. Join Me?
Loneliness, The Honeymoon Phase Of Technology, And A Commitment From Me To You. Join Me? ...
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Where The Evolution Of Communication Has Gone Wrong
Where The Evolution Of Communication Has Gone Wrong Slack, WhatsApp, Intranet, and hey, even texting- ...
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Are You Trying To Find Your Passion? Stop.
Are You Trying To Find Your Passion? Stop. Too often we hear the seemingly invaluable ...
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Three Ways to Increase Belonging at Work
We can all agree that the world of work is moving faster now than it ...
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Millennials, Don’t Make This Mistake When Applying For A Job
Millennials, Don't Make This Mistake When Applying For A Job When I was 19 I ...
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