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Are you really busy or just desperately insecure? Your coffee hasn't even kicked in, and your inbox is an avalanche of meeting invites that scream, "Look at me; I'm important!" Observe the grotesque inflation of the work calendar, a bloated monster fed by managers who weaponize the Outlook invite. Too many suits confuse a jam-packed schedule with actual productivity. Each meeting is stacked back-to-back as if they're playing Jenga with office hours—except nobody wins in this game. if meetings aren’t clearing roadblocks or sparking real ideas, axe them. We don't need another session of corporate show-and-tell or to help pad your meeting quota so you can feel like you've earned your impressive title. "What's the objective of this meeting?" someone dares to ask. Silence. Perhaps the somber sound of someone's hope dying in the corner. A stacked calendar is the perfect hideout for the managerial imposters to strut their counterfeit feathers, flooding your day with their presence, mistaking this chaotic carousel for competence. And don’t get me started on "leaders" using these gatherings as idea farms: “Let me borrow your ideas; I need this as a primer for my next meeting.” Great, not only are we wasting time in one meeting, but we're also fueling the next. I once was on a team where our boss made us fill in a deck for a recurring meeting where she had to present our work... "Leaders" put together endless meetings because they don't know what else to do. It's performative. Your crammed schedule is a symptom of a diseased approach to management—a blatant signal that screams, "I'm lost." Rethink your day. If a meeting doesn’t promise a clear exit ramp toward real results, kill it. It’s not a boardroom you need—it’s a reality check. The next time you block an hour, ask yourself—are we here to hide or to hunt? Are we moving forward, or are we just moving mouths? When did "I'm so busy" become a medal of honor instead of a red flag waving over chaotic mismanagement? I'm less than impressed with your calendar. It reeks of poor time management and shoddy leadership to me. Activity≠productivity. #leadership #corporate #ThatAshleyAmber

They say culture is how employees' hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night… Does the culture they’re offering taste like battery acid on your tongue when you bite down hard on a Sunday night, knowing Monday’s already clawing its way up your driveway? Is it the shadow lurking just outside your happiest weekend moments, reminding you that the grindstone is ready to smash your nose once again? Is it the relentless ping of emails that infiltrate your peace like digital cockroaches that refuse to die? Most corporate cultures aren’t designed to nurture souls but to squeeze every ounce of sweat equity from them until they’re dry, brittle and ready to be discarded. In these industrial joy vacuums, culture isn't about the employee experience or fostering creativity. It’s about compliance, clock-watching and a healthy dose of puckering up to someone’s hairy audacious derriere. Good culture? It feels like liberation. Like waking up on a Monday morning, and your first thought isn't dread but curiosity about what you'll create today. It’s knowing your voice counts, not just in the echo chambers of obligatory team meetings but in the real decisions that steer the ship. It’s where the leaders are in the trenches with you, where they know your name, your dreams, your cat’s name and your favorite pizza topping. It’s where they see you as more than just a line item on a budget or a cog in a machine. Where mistakes are seen as just another part of the growth process, not a mark of shame. A good culture feels like safety—not the bland, sanitized kind that numbs the mind, but the vibrant safety that comes from knowing you can fail and take risks without fear of becoming the office pariah. It's transparency, not just in salaries or office politics, but in intentions, struggles and successes. A good culture feels like respect—for your time, your well-being, your dreams and your boundaries. It acknowledges that while work is a significant part of life, it isn’t all of life. Your job isn’t just a role you play but a craft you hone—a contribution you make to a story much bigger than a quarterly report. Good culture is the adrenaline rush of a trust fall where you know hands will catch you because every stumble backward is just part of the dance. It’s the Mad Hatter’s tea party on payday—a wild ride where logic is optional, and madness is the currency of creativity. Where every meeting is a potential rabbit hole that might lead to Wonderland or a padded cell, and frankly, that’s the thrill of it. Good culture laughs in the face of the mundane, gives a wedgie to the status quo and sends “best practices” packing back to the boring conference they came from. So tell me, how do your heart and stomach feel right now? #companyculture #leadership #ThatAshleyAmber

I DARE YOU to continue talking corporate to me when I'm armed with this much ammo... This gem of a Venn diagram is brought to you by the geniuses who run the @MBA-ish Instagram account. #corporate #stopit #ThatAshleyAmber

What if my true calling is to be the unhinged, unfiltered voice behind a brand’s social media? 🤯 I could be the rogue behind the keyboard, turning every notification into a potential tripwire. Could I be the twisted genius crafting posts that go viral because they’re just too incendiary to ignore? Think about it. When was the last time a B2B post made you feel anything but bored? When was the last time a company made you laugh, made you think, made you angry enough to engage? Engagement is born from provocation, from emotion, from the raw human stuff that’s too often sterilized out of business communications. If elected, I solemnly swear never to whisper in corporate tongues. #socialmedia #corporate #ThatAshleyAmber

🪦 Here lies a company that died of its own complacency… We consistently underestimate the Herculean effort required to effectuate real change within the internal cogs of our corporate giants. While we’re still scheduling meetings to discuss the agenda of the next meeting, our customers have already moved on to the next big thing. They're out there, reshaping markets with the swipe of their fingers on smartphones, while we're stuck trying to figure out which form needs to be filed to request a new form. Most marketing failures are not stories of poor strategies or inadequate marketing spends; they are sagas of organizational inertia. Our failure to adapt quickly is the Achilles' heel that's bleeding us dry. Your internal memo takes longer to get approved than it takes for your market to reinvent itself. There's a disconnect, and it's catastrophic. Your company is a bloated carcass sprawled across the boardroom table. The stench of decay fills the air—a putrid mix of stale ideas and outdated processes. It’s festering, a feast for the maggots of market change gnawing at its cold, dead flesh. Your strategies? They are post-mortems, dissecting the corpse of what once worked. Your marketing meetings? A group of morticians embalming their next victim, preserving the body just long enough to look alive for the quarterly earnings call. Every minute we delay, dithering over memos and approvals, our market share is being sliced away by competitors sharp as scalpels, dissecting what was once ours. By the time we pivot, the customer has moved on, and all we’re left with is the skeletal remains of opportunity. Outdated hierarchies and glacial pace are not just slowing us down—they are actively dragging us into the grave. Each layer of bureaucracy adds another shovelful of dirt onto the coffin. Leaders, teams, entire divisions move with the ponderous deliberateness of continental drift. We slap “innovation” on slides and preach agility in boardrooms, yet our daily reality is mired in the quagmire of corporate butt-kissing and yesterday's success formulas. If we’re to stand a chance, we need a violent coup against our own status quo. We need to hack off the gangrenous limbs of our enterprise with unflinching ruthlessness. Or don’t and prepare for the autopsy report that reads: “Here lies a company that died of its own complacency.” This is the crossroads. Are we the phoenix that rises from the ashes of its own destruction, or are we just another set of bones in the corporate catacombs? Decide now because decomposition waits for no one, and the carrion birds of the market are unforgiving. #marketing #corporate #ThatAshleyAmber

This isn't content—it's a funeral procession. Every piece of content crafted not for the pulsing heart of your audience but for the cold, dead hands of your company's senior leadership is another nail in the coffin of what could have been vibrant, organic growth. These architects of stagnation have turned potential into a grotesque parody, where innovation is strangled in its crib, and bold ideas are smothered with a pillow of fear. Social media leaders, the agile guerrillas in the jungle of public opinion, are neutered, broadcasting not to the teeming masses hungry for engagement but to the echoing, empty halls of executive ego. Designers, who could be heralds of the new and the bold, are forced to become decorators of the decrepit. Writers, whose pens could have been mighty swords cutting through the noise, are reduced to quill-wielding court jesters, dancing for a king who's lost his kingdom. This absurdity can only end one way: with your brand's relevance bleeding out on the altar of these dinosaurs' vanity. Don't turn your creators into embalmers. #contentmarketing #creators #ThatAshleyAmber

Are you sure you want to be a content marketer? Hiring Manager: "Welcome, weary traveler, to 'Extreme Origami for Left-Handed Enthusiasts.’ Here, paper folds itself into impossible geometries, mocking the fabric of reality. Have you, perchance, ventured into such madness?" Content Marketer: "Indeed, my journey has taken me through many a strange and twisted narrative, including the left-handed origami saga. My portfolio is a patchwork quilt of stories, each more peculiar than the last." Hiring Manager: "Ah, but within this peculiar patchwork, have you exclusively narrated the plight of the left-handed, their struggles, their triumphs, within the precise and unforgiving world of extreme origami? Our paper contorts, rebels and demands a blood sacrifice." Content Marketer: "Blood has been spilled, ink has been blended with it, in the creation of tales for the southpaw origamist. Yet, I confess, the exacting demands of your paper, its rebellion against the very laws of physics, is a path I've yet to tread." Hiring Manager: "Our origami laughs in the face of Euclid and dances a jig on Newton’s grave. You've not yet been initiated into the arcane rites required to appease our paper. It seems you're unprepared for the eldritch horrors that reside within our folds." Content Marketer: "Admittedly, my experiences have not plunged me into the eldritch depths of your particular brand of paper-folding insanity. My battles have been with mere mortals, not the paper demons you describe." Hiring Manager: "Then you stand on the precipice of the abyss, untested, unarmed and uninked by the specific brand of madness that is our daily bread. We seek a bard who has wrestled with the paper beasts of the nether and emerged, if not victorious, at least with their sanity frayed but intact." Content Marketer: "It seems, then, that my quill is ill-suited to scribe the epic you require—a tale so fraught with peril that it would send lesser pens scurrying for the safety of mundane topics." Hiring Manager: "Indeed, your quest ends here, at the gates of our papercraft pandemonium. We will continue our search for a mythical creature born from a paper cut on a full moon night, baptized in ink and capable of summoning narratives that can tame our tempestuous origami." Content Marketer: "May your search lead you to the chosen one, for whom the paper folds not in defiance but in deference. And should your expedition through the realms of the absurd prove fruitless, remember: my pen, though not forged in the fires of your particular madness, stands ready to brave the folds of your tempest." Hiring Manager: "Should we return, it will be with contracts so arcane, with clauses so byzantine, that to sign them is to pledge one's soul to the capricious gods of Extreme Left-Handed Origami. Till that day, may your ink flow in less tortuous endeavors." Just a taste (or a warning) of what you can expect in the current market… #contentmarketing #candidateexperience #ThatAshleyAmber

"I can't believe candidates are lazy enough to use AI to write cover letters *cough* fan fiction!" —said the same people who are using AI to craft the job descriptions. "The applicant didn't even know the latest release in our product line and hasn't followed our LinkedIn page!" —said the same people who asked the applicants to walk through their resumes because they hadn't bothered to review their extensive applications beforehand. "The candidate asked for the budgeted salary range when I asked what her salary requirements were!" —said the same people who said the salary was "competitive" inside the job posting. "They asked to be compensated for our test project!" —said the same people who asked professionals to perform hours of unpaid work for a shot in the dark at a job. "They asked if they could speak to the last person who held their job title!" —said the same people who required a lengthy list of references as the next step in the hiring process. "They asked if I could move the interview to a time more convenient for them!" —said the same people who rescheduled and canceled interviews multiple times throughout the process and showed up late on several occasions. "They asked what my weaknesses are as a leader!" —said the same people who treat the resume gap question as if they’re uncovering a scandal rivaling Watergate. "They asked me to sell them the job!" –said the same people who asked candidates why they dreamed of working at their supremely average company. "They said they needed a few days to consider our amazing offer!" —said the same people who had applicants endure more than five rounds of interviews over the course of three months before making a decision. Isn’t it ironic? #candidateexperience #hirebetter #ThatAshleyAmber

Your leadership playbook is gathering dust faster than a VHS tape. If you're still mass emailing static employee newsletters or relying on your ghost town of an intranet to communicate, you're so behind that you're practically in another epoch. Modern employee communications platforms are your lifeline in a remote work world. Ignore them at your peril. RIP, Static Newsletters and Flaccid Intranets Internal newsletters are about as eagerly anticipated as a dentist appointment. They're a one-way ticket to Snoozeville, population: your disengaged employees. And your intranet? You don’t have to tell us how stale that place is—especially if it doesn’t support and foster two-way conversations. These tools are the dial-up internet of employee engagement—obsolete, ineffective and frankly, a bit embarrassing. Modern Employee Communications Platforms Today's workforce is digital-first, mobile and social. They live on platforms that offer instant communication, collaboration and community. If your leadership strategy doesn't include modernizing this, you're not just out of touch; you're actively disengaging your team. Employee engagement platforms tether your remote team to reality, purpose and each other. Engagement is a two-way street, not a dead-end inbox. The ability to comment, post, like and interact on your personal activity feed within an employee platform is a game-changer. Modern Comms Platforms Transform Remote Leadership: 🎯Instant Connection, Instant Impact: Swap quarterly all-hands meeting for weekly live streams. Use video messages to share updates, celebrate wins and acknowledge challenges. Show your face, share your voice and watch engagement soar. 🎯Two-Way Streets in a One-Way World: Ditch the monologues. Encourage comments, foster discussions and truly listen. Your next great idea might come from the comment section of your last post. 🎯Transparency is Not Optional: The goal is to tear down the dreary, opaque walls of traditional corporate comms. Share your vision, your doubts and your reasoning behind decisions. 🎯Recognition Goes Viral: Use these platforms to spotlight your team's achievements. Public shoutouts, kudos and virtual high-fives are transformative. 🎯Decentralize: Empower your team to create content, share stories and lead discussions. Leadership in the digital age is not about holding the reins tightly; it's about guiding and then getting out of the way. 🎯Feedback in the Fast Lane: These platforms provide channels for instant feedback. Use polls, surveys and direct messages to gauge sentiment, gather input and adjust in real-time. Cling to your outdated methods and watch your relevance fade faster than the memory of those unread newsletters. The choice is stark, the stakes are high and the clock is ticking. Ditch the draconian tactics! Embrace openness, flatten the hierarchy and lead with empathy. Evolve your communication, or face extinction. #EmployeeCommunications #EmployeeEngagement #ThatAshleyAmber

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