Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
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
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.
I LOVE IT WHEN an editor somewhere writes a snappy headline that makes me really want to read the story. I’ve written a few of those myself, and I know how hard they are to compose, but oh how wonderful they read when you pen one that really clicks. I found one like that in
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
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
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
I’M NOT GOING TO spend a lot of time writing about the ebb and flow or the ups and downs of Artificial Intelligence. There’s already a TON of that coming from everywhere else. This isn’t a big surprise. As I wrote here recently, “You’ll be seeing a lot more stories about the overhyping of AI
