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Editor’s Note: The summer months are a good time to occasionally republish some of my most popular posts. Here’s one from back in July 2014. YOU CAN TAKE IT from me: Arguing with the boss is generally not a career enhancing experience. I know this because I have worked for a number of different bosses
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my classic posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in August 2012. HERE’S A STORY I SAW saw over at Forbes that was so odd that it caught even my cynical and jaded eye — Six Lines Your Boss Should Never Cross.
LIKE SO MANY things in life, the Harvard Business Review isn’t what it used to be. I’m not sure why, but the cutting-edge stories about the world of business that HBR used to be known for seem to be more infrequent these days. If you pinned me down I wouldn’t be able to give you
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
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
Editor’s Note: My usual Monday wrap-up is taking a break this week, but here’s a classic Skeptical Guy post back from May 2019 that seems oddly appropriate in the Age of AI. EVEN I GET SURPRISED when I see something like this: The Wall Street Journal reports that companies are now turning to robots to
LEAVE IT TO Josh Bersin to push an old-school management practice in a AI-focused, 21st Century world. This past week, Josh had an interesting blog post titled The Labor Market Has Totally Changed: Are You Really Ready? As always, he made some great points about how the labor market has changed as Baby Boomers like me
IF YOU HAVE TO GO to a conference, there are few places better to do it than Las Vegas. Not only does the city have a giant Convention Center, but many large hotels — Caesars Palace, the Aria, the Venetian and Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Wynn and Encore, MGM Grand, and the Red Rock Resort, just
THERE’S A TON of workplace jargon we all have to navigate, but here’s a new term to get your head around — “workplace friction.” This isn’t terribly new. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton — well known for his book The No Asshole Rule — says that workplace friction is “simply putting obstacles in front of people
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
