Jane Dutton is a faculty member at the Ross School of Business and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations (CPO). I’ve been preparing
Pack Your Higher Purpose for the Long Haul
In a previous post about resilience, I shared how living by a higher purpose can increase resilience and success in life. Living by a higher
Return To Office – A Time for Context-Based Leadership
As Mike and I were leading Atomic’s return-to-office (RTO) efforts, we hit a point when we needed to make a fundamental decision on how we
Attention: Spending Your Most Valuable Currency
A friend recently pointed out that remote work hurts companies with strongly connected, supportive cultures, and helps companies with more dysfunctional cultures. A job with
The Future of Work and the Workplace
Rewind 571 days ago, we made the difficult decision to shut our offices and shift to remote work because of the coming COVID-19 pandemic. At
Using Day Sales Outstanding to Manage Working Capital
As a small software agency, we deal with a lot of cash flowing in and out of our business. Probably unsurprisingly, our largest operational expense
Resilience Doesn’t Come From Being Resilient
Resilience is a strong predictor of success in life. I suspect most of us have been taking a backward approach to building it. This occurred
Slicing the Revenue Pie in a Multi-Stakeholder Company
Atomic Object’s purpose makes it clear that we practice multi-stakeholder capitalism. We strive to be a source of fulfillment for all Atoms and a force
Commercial versus Existential Purpose
Atomic Object designs and builds custom software products for clients in nearly all industries. That’s our commercial purpose, and, after 20 years, we’re quite good
How I Misunderstood Mentorship and Benefited Anyway
I’m almost 60 years old. Most people would say I’m successful in my career and life. I readily point to my family, demographics, education, intelligence,