Zach’s Blog

How to Serve Your Office “Eeyore”

After a talk I gave last week, a workshop attendee hurried up to me and asked, “So what about those office ‘Eeyores?’” “You know, the ones who are miserable and rude all the time and just bring the whole group down…what are we supposed to do with them?” Of course, at first I laughed hard … Read more

To Hell with Your Brain, Your Soul is Calling

Listen to Your Soul

The soul is undefeated in the battle of brain versus heart. As I got back into my old Jeep after the fateful encounter with the cab driver who’d convinced me to quit my first job out of college to find my purpose, I battled the traffic on the George Washington Parkway heading back to my … Read more

How College Kills Purpose, and How to Get It Back

College

Indecisive liberal arts majors may be our future’s best hope. (Okay, I was one of those so maybe I am a bit biased.) But I can still hear the job-obsessed parents of eager, prospective college students choking on their morning coffee and feel the Engineering majors snickering. After a decade working in public higher education … Read more