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Essential Career & Life Advice From The CEO of UScellular

Jacob Morgan / January 25, 2021

Laurent Therivel is the CEO of UScellular, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the United States with 5,000 employees across 23 states. Previously he spent 12 years at AT&T where he most recently served as CEO of AT&T Mexico leading 18,000 people.

Becoming the CEO of a company during a pandemic comes with a unique set of problems. A role that usually requires a lot of face to face interaction with employees, customers, and vendors has been mostly limited to phone calls and online meetings.

Leadership and Management

Does Your Company Honestly Care About You?

Jacob Morgan / July 8, 2020

I moved to San Francisco over a decade ago. At the time I was working for a marketing agency in downtown doing search engine optimization work and digital marketing. They would host lunch and learns, talk about the company values, and try to convince people that they were valued. It was all fake.

Leadership and Management

The Difference Between Purpose & Meaning and How to Create Both

Jacob Morgan / July 3, 2020

Companies used to think that in order to attract and retain the best talent, they just had to offer perks and a nice paycheck. Now, it’s evident that employees care about more than just making money. They want a sense of purpose and meaning in their work and are often willing to take a pay cut to get them. We often see these two words go together and they are used interchangeably but what do they really mean and how can leaders and organizations create more purpose and meaning for their employees?

Podcast

Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job

Jacob Morgan / January 27, 2020

Bruce Daisley is a former Twitter VP and bestselling author of the forthcoming book, Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job, which comes out February 25th. Bruce also has experience working for Google and YouTube.