Pete "Not the Perch" Lammi

You are halfway through an email when a co-worker stops beside your desk. “Do you have a minute? I’m stuck on the client handoff, and I’m not sure…

At Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Market, customers gather to watch fishmongers work with remarkable energy. The work is cold, physical, and demanding, yet the people behind the counter…

At 10:18 on a Tuesday night, a manager sent a message to her team: “Quick question—does anyone know where the latest client numbers are?” She expected an answer…

At Pike Place Fish Market, a worker can throw a salmon twenty feet across a busy counter, catch it with one hand, and hear the whole team call…

The FISH! Philosophy video began with a filmmaker, a crowded Seattle market, and a question about why one fish stand felt so alive. John Christensen, a filmmaker with…

At 2:15 on a Wednesday afternoon, a manager noticed that one of her strongest employees had turned off their camera for the third meeting in a row. The…

Employee wellbeing does not always need another program, platform, workshop, or campaign. In many cases, the most useful improvements are already within a manager’s reach. They begin with…

A full inbox on Saturday and a firm 5 p.m. sign-off can look like opposite behaviors. One employee seems too committed. The other seems checked out. Yet both…

A manager once noticed that Jen had started taking more sick days. She was not coughing. She did not have a fever. On the days she came in,…