Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
I WAS INTO REMOTE work long before anyone called it that. But it took me some time before I had a job suited for it. Back then I was a Vice President at the much maligned, ahead of its time Pets.com — it was an early version of Chewy despite what Chewy’s former CEO says
IT’S A SAD DAY whenever one of the last remaining Apollo astronauts passes away, especially when it is one of the few who went to the Moon. Bill Anders, who died last week at the age of 90, was one of those guys, even if he never set foot on another celestial body. Although he
A LONG TIME AGO, in a workplace far, far away, I ranted about all the dumb meetings I had attended over the years. The original blog post on that has been lost to institutional idiocy at the publication that made it impossible to find again some 15 years after I wrote it, but the gist
HAVE YOU EVER heard a manager ever say that they DON’T have an open door policy? I haven’t, and I would guess nobody else has either. That’s because it’s one of those platitudes that leaders fall back on because they know that saying you’re always accessible is a lot different than actually BEING accessible. In
I’VE DONE MY BEST to stay away from the AI hype machine. It hasn’t been easy. That’s because so many influential people have jumped on the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon, fueling both giddy excitement, and sometimes, fears of gloom and doom. But don’t look to me for any great insight on that. I’m a lower-your-expectations kind
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some classic Skeptical Guy posts, and this is the most popular one of them all. It’s also highly relevant given the screwy state of today’s job market. It was originally published back in August 2018. ********************************** REMEMBER THE OLD military concept of “shock and awe“? It got a lot of
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS for a few months now: the job market is screwy and not nearly as good as everyone — especially the president — has been saying it is. I’m not as plugged into the recruiting and hiring space as I was for the past 20 years, but even I can hear the
Editor’s Note: I’ve been occasionally reposting some popular articles from the past. This one was published back in January 2007. THE HOME DEPOT used to be about people. I was sadly reminded of this during the hullabaloo over the abrupt departure of Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli. The focus of most news coverage was on
I CAN’T TELL YOU how many times I longed for hybrid work. It wasn’t called that back when I first asked my boss about it in 2000, or again in 2007-2008, or even as recently as 2016. It wasn’t called hybrid, or remote, or anything back then, but it didn’t matter because I worked for
LEADERSHIP ISN’T EASY, and anyone who has been a leader knows that. I’ve worked as a journalist, editor, and writer for a number of years, yet what I REALLY know and excel at is … management. I’ve managed people and worked in leadership roles for the greater part of my adult life. That means that
