When businesses tell people to keep their identity out of the workplace, they are causing mental health harm. Period.
The effort to hide, the message that they should be ashamed of who they are because coworkers are uncomfortable, isn’t just
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Mike McBride Online, published by Mike McBride, covers topics intersecting law, technology, and workplace issues. The blog discusses mental health challenges within the legal profession, the impact of artificial intelligence on society and politics, and productivity concerns in professional environments. It also addresses career development themes such as networking and work-life balance. The content often reflects on the effects of continuous change and transformation in the workplace, emphasizing practical insights relevant to legal professionals and others navigating evolving work dynamics.
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A PR Hoax Created the Year’s Hottest Rock Band. Imagine What It Can Do in Politics
By Mike McBride
Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated.
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Why Do Team Members Stay?
By Mike McBride
This relationship might be the biggest indicator of whether your best people stay, and you give the person in charge of this relationship almost no training on how to manage it effectively.
Please, make it make sense.
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Shared Links (bi-weekly) June 14, 2026
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Worth Reading – The trap of being promoted from within
By Mike McBride
When you get the title, people will bring you things and hand off responsibility to things that you didn’t know existed. Even though you were sitting right there, in the team that you now lead, you don’t know how many…
Worth Reading – Good Leaders Presume Team Members Feel Undervalued and Underappreciated
By Mike McBride
It’s a difficult thing, in the busy work world we all live in, to make sure your people are looked after and appreciated. It’s very easy to take them for granted because you trust them to do their work. I’m…
Worth Reading – AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us
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Shared Links (bi-weekly) May 31, 2026
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Create Certainty Where You Can
By Mike McBride
Like it or not, your team is dealing with a ridiculous amount of uncertainty in and out of the office. Most of it is beyond our control. When we have the opportunity to create less of it, we should do…
Worth Reading – RIM Is Moving Upstream
By Mike McBride
Instead of starting your work in a blank Word document or spreadsheet, start in Copilot chat, then move it to a Copilot page, which is a Loop file. From there, you drop part of the page, a component, into chat…