Today’s case study comes from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer/publisher behind blockbuster titles such as Overwatch, Warcraft, Starcraft, and Hearthstone. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Blizzard employees began circulating a spreadsheet on Friday to anonymously share salaries and recent pay increases after the company’s placation attempt failed. One employee then created a spreadsheet and encouraged…
For the past few years, a friend of mine has been mentoring a disadvantaged high school student. Thanks to his guidance, the mentee grew tremendously and was recently accepted into several prestigious colleges pending graduation. However, when asked by the program whether he wanted to continue the mentor-mentee relationship into college, my friend politely declined.…
It is no great revelation that people do not like to fail or be rejected. Rejection and failure suck. Some people fear rejection and failure so much that they would rather not exist than experience it. Should you avoid rejection and failure then? Au contraire, not only should you accept rejection and failure, you should…
Today’s case study comes from Barstool Sports and the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Unlike the Tribune Publishing case study, this one involves high value employees. Co-hosted by Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn, the “Call Her Daddy” podcast revolved around their sexual exploits as single 20-something women in NYC, interspersed with sex and dating advice. The…
“I should work on my resume,” a friend said one day. He had been selling enterprise software at a medium-sized company for the last ten years or so. They hired him right out of school, and it was the only employer he had ever known. He was good at his job and generally liked what…
