Here's the deal: setting clear expectations is not just about making the workday smoother; it's about creating an environment where people can thrive and want to stay.

Although the idea of “quiet quitting” is now in vogue, it’s not new; many people have been silently skating by for years.

One of the only contexts in which we as adults consciously enter into relationships characterized by actual “authority” (where one person is “superior” to the other in rank and decision-making control) is at work.