Essays about work, life, and the absurdity in between.
Personal essays and observations from an optimistic cynic who spent nearly four decades studying people—sometimes professionally.
Meet Randy
Writer. Optimistic cynic. Recovering corporate executive.
After nearly four decades in corporate life, I have a few things to say about work, culture, relationships, identity, aging, and the strange ways people behave when we think no one is paying attention.
I was paying attention.
The Impolite Mentor
Leadership advice for people tired of leadership advice.
After 18 years as an executive, I have opinions about leadership, corporate culture, power, meetings, performance reviews, and all other things organizations manage to make considerably more complicated than necessary.
The Impolite Mentor is where I write about them.
No frameworks. No seven habits. No thought leadership.
At least not yet.
Just stories about what happens when actual human beings go to work.