Nov 19, 2025 | Business, Leadership, Meetings
Reading Time: 6 minutesby Joe McCormack Five Flaws That Sabotage Meetings—and How to Fix Them Let’s be honest: most meetings are a mess. We sit in them, we run them, we dread them. They consume our calendars, drain our focus, and somehow manage to produce … not much....
Oct 13, 2025 | Business, Communication, Leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutesby Joe McCormack Your Boss Doesn’t Have Time for You Imagine walking into your next one-on-one and realizing it’s been rescheduled—again. It’s not personal. It’s structural. Across nearly every industry, organizations are flattening. Layers of...
Sep 4, 2025 | Business, Communication
Reading Time: 2 minutesby Joe McCormack Confusion is a Business Killer Everyone complains about wasted time in meetings. But here’s the truth: the real price you’re paying isn’t in minutes—it’s in confusion. Confusion kills clarity, stalls decisions, derails major...
Sep 4, 2025 | Communication, Leadership, NOISE
Reading Time: 3 minutes by Joe McCormack Why Jargon Kills Clarity Ever been in a conversation where the other person nods politely but clearly has no clue what you’re talking about? Odds are, you were speaking dolphin—using a language only you and a few insiders...
Apr 16, 2025 | Communication, Leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutesGo On, Ask for Favors Why don’t we ask for favors? Favors are an untapped fuel source. They are powerful, yet we don’t request them often enough. The risks seem to outweigh the rewards. Over the course of my career, I have not asked...
