Craig MattsonYour Job’s Just Not That into You. And That’s Ok.Workplace journalism today makes the Great Resignation sound like a Bad Breakup. Americans aren’t just leaving their jobs; they’re…5 min read·Nov 29, 2021----
Craig MattsonMode SwitchingThirty years ago, I inscribed a line from John Milton in a spiral-bound college notebook:4 min read·Nov 16, 2021----
Craig MattsonWhen Empathy’s Not EnoughWhat do you do when, as an organizational leader, you’re just not that good at performing compassion? Should you look for other work? Or…5 min read·Nov 11, 2021----
Craig MattsonA Condition Worse than BurnoutAnne Helen Peterson’s 2020 book Can’t Even asks, “How Work Got So Shitty.” She notes the strange fact that more and more of us work longer…4 min read·Oct 28, 2021----
Craig MattsonSurviving Inattention in an Attention EconomyRichard Lanham has argued that in an Information Society the one great shortage is attention. You’re struggling to read even the first…5 min read·Oct 20, 2021----
Craig MattsonThe Edges of Epiphany, or Why Inspirational Storytelling Isn’t EnoughConcentric circles of chairs surround me, each filled with a human whose face and form I can make out in the darkness, if I stare with an…6 min read·Oct 11, 2021----
Craig MattsonWhy Effective Altruism Might Not BeThis morning, I caught the latest episode of the Ezra Klein Show, a conversation with Holden Karnofsky, one of the founders of GiveWell and…4 min read·Oct 5, 2021----
Craig MattsonWhy Organizational Spirituality Seems ExtraMention personal wellness to an organizational leader, and I predict they’ll give you something between a nod and a grimace. They’ll nod…4 min read·Sep 30, 2021----
Craig MattsonWhy Write 1000 Words a Day?Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a book project about the spiritual lives of organizations — that’s the background for…4 min read·Jan 12, 2021----
Craig MattsonWhy Organizational Spirituality’s Not about Self-CareI don’t remember how old I was when somebody told me a story about a rabbi who was telling stories to a huge crowd. His stories tumbled…3 min read·Jan 12, 2021----