7 Rules for Small Business Employee Retention
Small businesses are often less prepared to directly address employee retention. P2U's 7 rules for good staff retention can help.
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Resources on Meaningful Work & More!
You'll find just about everything you need for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.
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P2U blogs are all about public philosophy. We not only apply philosophical ideas to better understand issues and questions that matter to work and life, but we also offer accessible discussion and thought-provoking insights.
Todd Mei
- Jul 17
- 3 min
Does Your Work Life Suffer From Parallax?
When your work suffers from parallax, it means the reasons you're working no longer suit your life goals and purposes. Can this be fixed?
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Todd Mei
- May 7
- 7 min
Getting Over Impostor Syndrome
Most people suffer from some form of impostor syndrome. It's not easy to overcome, but philosophy can help with self-belief and practice.
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Todd Mei
- Apr 27
- 8 min
Best Practice: What Can Philosophy Teach Us?
What is the purpose of best practices? It's often effectiveness about achieving specific ends. But is this really best for us?
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Todd Mei
- Mar 11
- 6 min
Why Your Job Satisfaction May Not Be Meaningful
Job satisfaction is easy enough to describe, but in practice it might be harming your life. A remedy lies in scaling job satisfaction.
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Todd Mei
- Feb 1
- 6 min
Hate Your Job But Love Your Leisure?
If you hate your job but put up with it because you can do what you love in your free time, you may be doing more harm than good to yourself
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Graeme Forbes
- Jan 29
- 5 min
Management Is Not Lion Taming
Bad management philosophy is based on control. Empathy and kindness are actually much more effective if understood and applied correctly.
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Todd Mei
- Jan 14
- 7 min
How Can We Bring about Meaningful Work?
Meaningful work can be understood at the levels of society, business, and the individual. This blog covers the essentials of meaningful work
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Todd Mei
- Aug 23, 2022
- 8 min
What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)
Like many people, my wife and I used the pandemic to make some big changes in our lives. We left our academic careers as tenured...
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Todd Mei
- Feb 10, 2022
- 1 min
"Encouragement as Work"
Many of us seem to be asking ourselves what we want from our jobs in the broadest possible way, a decent wage is but one desideratum.
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Todd Mei
- Dec 8, 2021
- 5 min
What Is Meaningful Work?
The general idea of meaningful work is that the job one does or the career one adopts in some way contributes to a meaningful life.
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Todd Mei
- Jun 14, 2021
- 6 min
Coping with Change and Transition: An Existential Management Point of View
What if the key to organizations coping with change lied in caring for its people? Would might this look like?
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Todd Mei
- Nov 2, 2020
- 5 min
The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?
Remote working is a double-edged sword. More efficiency at the price of the loss of work-life balance and a sense of cohesion and identity.
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Todd Mei
- Oct 5, 2020
- 5 min
Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix
A virtual meeting or event that works is one where personalities are able to be on display in order that the others can attune to them
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Todd Mei
- Aug 10, 2020
- 4 min
Remote Working: How Do You See Others?
Remote working conditions are often not organic enough to allow for co-worker visibility. But that can be fixed.
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Todd Mei
- Jun 24, 2020
- 5 min
All Work and No Play Makes Jackie a Dull Void
Seeing employees as a means to an end inevitably creates a culture in which practices and tasks treat and reinforce people as merely means.
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