Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
FOR ALL THE HULLABALOO we keep hearing about Artificial Intelligence and all the advancements that will flow from it, there’s another school of thought to keep in mind. You may be hearing it more these days, and it’s this: Perhaps the AI hype was a little overblown. Case in point: A timely story from Computerworld
YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW what a four-day work week is like until you actually work one. I know how it is because I found myself working one (more on that shortly) back near the beginning of my career. And you quickly learn this: once you work a four-day work week, you NEVER want to go
Editor’s Note: I’ve written a version of this weekly wrap-up for more than 20 years — from Workforce.com to TLNT.com to Fuel50. Now, I’m doing it here. Let me know what you think at johnhollon@yahoo.com. I THINK I WAS WAS BORN to lead and be a manager. I’ve been doing it since I was editing
Editor’s Note: I’ve written a version of this weekly wrap-up for more than 20 years — from Workforce.com to TLNT.com to Fuel50. Now, I’m doing it here. Let me know what you think at johnhollon@yahoo.com. THERE HAS BEEN an ongoing debate since the pandemic started to wind down, and it comes down to one basic
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic Skeptical Guy posts while preparing a new project. This one is from December 2018. HERE’S A GOOD QUESTION I almost never, ever hear anyone ask much less answer: How can I be a better manager? That may be because most of the advice on being a better manager only
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic Skeptical Guy posts the last few months. This one is from July 2018. DESPITE THE NEVER ENDING focus on how we recruit and hire new employees, we know that we should also spend as much time and energy on how we can better retain the good people who are
HOUSING IS A BIG PROBLEM here in the People’s Republic of California. There are many reasons why, but as the website CalMatters explains, “it’s complicated.” Years and years of regulations and restrictions have made building new housing a lot more expensive. The result? As Cal Matters reports, “the median price of an existing single family
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing classic (and slightly edited/updated) Skeptical Guy posts the last few months. This one is from June 2018. HERE’S A MANAGEMENT TRUISM you just can’t avoid: You learn more from a bad boss than you do from a good one. I was struck by this when I came across an old Corner
ONE OF MY FAVORITE Elton John songs is Funeral for a Friend. It kicks off Sir Elton’s 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album that has sold more than 20 million copies and “is widely regarded as John’s magnum opus,” according to Wikipedia. The interesting thing about Funeral for a Friend is that it is an “instrumental
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TAUGHT that when it comes to writing, less is more. As the BBC points out, it’s an idea that goes back at least 2,500 years, but I originally heard it from my first professional editor on my first professional job. There’s even a Netflix series about it, although the title of that
