Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
I WANTED TO WRITE something lighthearted about the New Year in my first post of 2025, but it’s hard to be lighthearted if you live in Southern California, as I do. So much for a Happy New Year. You’ve surely seen or heard about the fires that have decimated several SoCal communities, and the hardest
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
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my most popular posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in August 2017. HERE’S A CONFESSION: I hate online job ads because I’ve found that they’re a crappy way to find the very best candidates. On the one hand, my recruiter side
YOU FIND ALL SORTS of interesting things when you go through old email. I’ve been doing that recently as I try to get rid of the many messages I’ve saved over the years. Why I saved so many escapes me now, but the silver lining is this — I’m finding some interesting conversations that are
WRITING THIS BLOG often makes me reflect on people I’ve encountered during my career. Sometimes people ask, “Who was the oddest person you ever had working for you?” and although quite a few pop into my head, there’s one that tops all others. It’s a guy named Larry who I worked with in San Diego
LOYAL READERS of this blog — I think there are a couple of you out there — may have wondered why I haven’t published for the last few weeks. My apologies for that, but there are a number of reasons for me going radio silent. The big one is that my family has been struggling
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 here and on LinkedIn back in June 2018. I LOVE IT WHEN a long-time workplace practice gets re-defined by some silly new terminology. Yes, I was excited when I discovered what The New York Times is now calling that time you get off
Editor’s note: From time to time I’ve been reposting some of my most popular articles from the past. This one was published here and on LinkedIn back in September 2017. I’VE WORKED WITH a lot of leaders during my career, and I could go on all day about the qualities that separate the good from
