Abstract: Creating a sustainably positive, can-do environment that delivers results.
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From the monthly archives:
September 2008
Wait, wait…
…it’s a TIE!
The award goes to both the legislative and executive branches of government over the mishandling of the financial industry crisis!
But this just in… inspired by the sheer genius of the Olympic gymnastic judging system, in cases of ties, the Spitzer Award is now awarded according to the following formula:
[(# of buffoons involved) [...]
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Abstract: Every night, your employs pollute their minds by watching depressing, violent, graphic images on TV. As a manager, you need to start your day by helping individuals overcome that mental pollution.
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A: You and math are best friends. The problem you have is that your third grade teacher? She didn’t get along with math at all—they were NOT FRIENDS. So you sort of got this slanted picture of ol’ math, and by the time you got to high school you were already all like, “Pfft, that [...]
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If you want to get to the heart of your mental and emotional issues, see a shrink. If you want to learn, learn, learn, take a class, or at least make it a habit to read something every day.
If you’re working with a consultant or coach within a business context, you should be focused on one thing:
results.
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I recently read a manuscript about Gen X in the workplace, and as I did so, I was struck by how much of a transitional generation we are. Perhaps because of all the flux that has occurred (and continues to occur) in our time, we have always struggled to have a positive identity; so many [...]
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Abstract: Link to a presentation on critical elements of a technology leadership career path.
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I had the chance to cozy up with a Kindle not too long ago… 2 Kindles, actually. And while I’ve read the reviews and agree that the controls are not entirely intuitive, the learning curve for them is short and the experience is top drawer nonetheless.
How much did I love it? Let’s just say that [...]
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Next to dealing with humans, even calculus seems easy… because once you figure out how to solve a math problem, that problem remains solved forever… whereas people are dynamic, ever-changing, and stubbornly beyond resolution.
What I can’t figure out then, is why our field is so fascinated with the idea of treating people-problems as things that can be solved by clever, but static, 4×4 matrices?
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Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Below is reprint of the post I made one year ago today. Despite (or maybe because of?) another election cycle, nothing’s changed. I marveled, as I stood in a monster security line at O’Hare recently, that anyone is under the illusion that the TSA makes us safer. Reality [...]
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