What's Your Most Controversial Work-Related Opinion?
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What’s your most controversial work-related opinion?
Gen Z is truly problematic? We should be in-office 5 days/week? AI should replace most of your colleagues?
Subway Takes — where subway riders share a quick hot take and the show’s host/interviewer either agrees or disagrees, and then they discuss — is some of the best content on social media. For example, I 100% agree with this take and I 100% disagree with this take.
So let’s do a work-related version! We’re calling it ‘Tube Takes’ (s/o Leanne!) as a pun on my last name and “the tube” being slang for the UK’s underground subway system. I’ve already gotten a handful of takes via LinkedIn and I want you to share your hottest, most controversial work-related opinion with me. I’ll respond to them in next week’s newsletter.
You can submit it (anonymously if you’d like!) in one click here.
A few initial submissions include:
Employers should be required to disclose their political donations to employees. Both the company donations and those of the Board/Exec Team.
Stop gamifying compliance trainings.
Engagement surveys are useless but companies are disincentivized to actually dig deeper.
Myers-Briggs is the biggest case of fraud the corporate world has ever experienced.
Companies obsess over data for every function, but when it comes to their people, many leaders still rely on instinct.
Companies spend months perfecting their strategy, then give almost no training to the people expected to execute it.
If have the time on my commute, I take the local (subway) to people watch.
Carlo M. Cipolla was a genius. His essay on human stupidity should be required reading. And, when I suggest such a thing, I'm the one that is either ignored or laughed at.