Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
THERE’S A WRITER in Finland that I occasionally do a little editing for who I haven’t heard from in a while. He sent me an email last week and he led off with this: “How are you? The election is done and the next president has been chosen. How does that feel?” I’ve gotten similar
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my most popular posts. Here’s one from back in December 2017. THE HEADLINE ON A STORY in The Wall Street Journal pretty much said it all: Welcome to the Post-Weinstein Holiday Party. What followed was 1,400 depressing words that basically said, without actually saying it, something that you probably already know
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
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
HERE’S ANOTHER WRINKLE to the debate over remote and hybrid work — it’s called chronoworking. That’s not a word that rolls off the tongue easily, and it was new to me when I read a BBC Worklife story about it titled The ‘chronoworking’ productivity hack that helps workers excel. So, what is “chronoworking?” As BBC
Editor’s Note: I’ve been reposting some of my popular articles from the past. This one was published here back in August 2017. THE OLD ADAGE is true — there’s nothing new under the sun. But once in awhile even I get surprised by a new insight that makes up for the crap that passes for management
SOME WORKPLACE ISSUES seem to pop up over and over again, and if you stick around long enough you’ll get another round of suggestions on how to handle them. Last week, I found an article at Chief Executive on a workplace topic I’ve written about a lot over the years, and you may have dealt
Editor’s Note: I’ve been republishing some classic posts, and here’s a Skeptical Guy holiday classic. This one is from November 2018. YOU KNOW HOW the song goes — “it’s the most wonderful time of the year.” It’s also the most stressful time of thew year, too. Everyone knows that the holiday season runs from Thanksgiving through
