When you ask an organ grinder for feedback you don’t want to hear from the monkey in the workplace Feedback is difficult for many to process both in personal and work realms. For some managers, providing feedback is akin to getting a root canal. For many […]
Being an optimizer in the lived moment A while back I wrote about satisficers. Those are the individuals that do the minimum to get something over and done with. Now let’s think about optimizers. At a past event, a colleague noted to me that he […]
Your celebrity-like employees: Gauging happiness and anger before they quit As a manager you have to be attuned to the emotional ups and downs of staff. At least the good managers are. Recently, I noted to another manager colleague that I believed certain people were unhappy and […]
Birds of a feather when it comes to friends and money: Who foots the restaurant bill? When I started college, I noticed an odd thing in regards to first-year college roommates. They all seemed to have been placed together based on height. All pairs were […]
Rabbit, Rabbit on this Labor Day: May you be productive but balanced Rabbit, rabbit. Ok. Had to get that out of the way. Ever since boarding school I have said “rabbit, rabbit” every morning the first day of the month. I didn’t really dig into the […]
Is it ok for a smart, motivated, highly educated woman to drop out of the workforce? You are told growing up that it is a man’s world, but that you can overcome the cultural obstacles and glass ceilings if you just put your nose to the grindstone […]
Wacky women news including the extreme anti-Eisoptrophobia exhibited by Kim Kardashian and girls “playing dumb” to get a boy We are now deep into August with just four months left to the year. Don’t know about you all, but I surely could use a rewind […]
Today we were asked to think about what would happen if we woke up and it was ten days later. I can tell you I would be mighty bummed out to have missed my son’s formative years and have missed seeing New Orleans become the grand city it […]
The ruse of niceness in the workplace I will warn you right here. This ain’t no happy go lucky narrative. It’s a bit downtrodden. You have been warned. Carry on. As I grew in the ranks at work, I took my lumps on the chin and I fought […]
Clarice Starling, Indiana Jones and Buffy: living out their fanciful scenes in day to day life It seems that nowadays everyday serves as a test of character. At every turn, there is an ethical dilemma, a quest to do the right thing and a desire to […]
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