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Hammers and Paint and Tile, oh My! …and renovations suck
Today marks day 81 of a 3-week home renovation project. I hate everyone. Especially contractors. Not hate really, though at a minimum, I am significantly miffed. We’ve been without normalcy at home for going on three months. As someone who works from that home, it’s...
Get a Real Job! …and make sure they know what you do
A couple of decades ago, my daughter accompanied me to my cubicle in the Pentagon as part of Take Your Child to Work Day. Pretty boring for an 11-year-old who observed that my entire morning consisted of “playing” on the computer, talking to my friends around the...
You Want It When??!! …aka Artificial Deadlines are Useless
Another Monday morning and I’m looking at the list of things that had to be done last week but aren’t.
I guess they didn’t have to be done.
Some of us have boundary-setting challenges that make our lives more difficult when we start babysitting monkeys from other people’s circuses. And then some of us have deadline-setting challenges that make those around us stop taking our sense of urgency seriously.
Dinosaur Tails and Backpacks — Check Your Six
Warning: I intend to mix a bunch of metaphors in this article. If you’re an English teacher or just a self-appointed internet grammar snob, you may want to pass on by. Nothing to see here. These are not the metaphors you’re looking for… (waving my hand and using my...
Meetings Are For People Who Aren’t Too Busy
An old friend sent me a picture the other day of this blue ribbon that says, “I survived another meeting that should have been an email.” He obviously remembers how I feel about meetings. Turns out you can actually buy the ribbons here, and I know a lot of bosses who...
10 Client Lessons from 2021, PART DEUX
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. -- Aristotle This is Part 2 of a 2-Part series It’s interesting… this 2-part series has just ten client lessons learned from 2021. I could double that number with little effort. Helping and watching clients grow,...
Best Boss Ever: Back to the Leadership Basics in 2022
Wow! Where the hell did 2021 go, and why did it leave us with so many work environment leadership challenges that none of us saw coming at the beginning of 2020? We’re struggling how to manage a blended (at home / at the office) workforce and either losing workers as...
10 Client Lessons from 2021, PART 1
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. -- Aristotle This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series I love the Aristotle quote. There’s plenty of successful leaders and organizations that “know,” and they do well with that knowledge. The next level folks, they...
The Workplace of the Future
The Workplace of the Future Auntie Em, Uncle Henry...you're not in Kansas anymore! Coming out of the chaos of the last 18 months, I’ve noticed that the people I work with have changed somehow. They sound the same and look pretty much the same, but they seem different....
Are You Micro-Managing??
By D. Kevin Berchelmann This is an interesting and pertinent topic to me, as many of my clients – some aware, some not – suffer from the micro-managing malady. Are you micro-managing?? It’s been my experience that micro-managers do so from perceived need. At least in...
Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: No Bite to a Leader’s Evaluation
By Kevin D. Ross I’ve never seen an annual performance evaluation that was worth half the time it took to fill it out. That’s especially true when it comes to evaluating the leaders in our organizations. Have you ever wondered why we even do them? When we don’t assess...
Leadership and Healthy Conflict
Leadership and Healthy Conflict Healthy conflict: Good. Unhealthy conflict: Bad. There endeth the first lesson… The key, of course, is knowing the difference between the two. I frequently say that when reasonably intelligent, well-intentioned people disagree, the...
The Emperor Has No Clothes! Except for His Socks
Disclaimer: The identities of the characters in the story below have been changed to protect the innocent from possible repercussions by her moronic boss(es). The military has an acronym for almost everything… and for the rest, it has initialisms. Today’s acronym is...
