I’ve spoken with a lot of indirect communicators who feel invalidated in direct-communicating environments. These people tend to especially appreciate leaders and colleagues who bridge to their indirect style at key moments.

This story takes place in China. It could happen anywhere.

I’d been appointed as American co-director of a small joint China-U.S. graduate center in Nanjing, China.

If you’ve been reading my content for a while, you know I just won’t “go there” when it comes to cynicism, doom, and gloom.

“How are you?” What a simple question. We probably ask it at least a few times each day, and answer just as often.

An invitation to an impactful learning experience.

We need all the help we can get identifying our unconscious biases. It turns out that help is but a word away.

How do we fix things when we mess up? Here are 3 dos and 2 don’ts.

Leaders need to reckon with the impact of our actions, even — or, especially — when it doesn’t align with our intent.

It takes work to retrain our brains, but we need to do it.

If we see lions everywhere we look, how can be build trust and empathy in the workplace?

Jason appears as a guest on Michael Glazer’s Humans at Work podcast. They discuss a wide range of issues relating to power in the workplace.

Jason shares key points from an impactful speech he gave in 2019.