NonsenseAtWork

#210: Solutions Searching for Problems Create Nonsense at Work 23.06.2021 1:00 ↓

Do you know what I find annoying? Those people who go about thinking that all problems are opportunities in disguise.

#209: Live Life the Way You Plan Vacations 15.06.2021 1:00 ↓

Do you go on vacation without planning it? And do you plan your vacation without bothering to find out more about the place you have chosen?

#208: Know the Right Answer To Ask the Right Question 08.06.2021 1:00 ↓

When you ask a question, do you know what you will do with the answer?

#207: Don’t Be a Know-and-Hog 01.06.2021 1:00 ↓

Do you know and hog or do you know and share?

#206: Step Outside To Think Differently 25.05.2021 1:00 ↓

If you stay inside all the time, then you won’t be able to think from the outside looking in.

#205: Feel Compelled To Meet. Or Not. 18.05.2021 1:00 ↓

Meetings, meetings, bl... boring meetings. Are you also tired of unproductive meetings?  

#204: Don’t Let Making a Decision Stop You Taking One 11.05.2021 1:00 ↓

Have you ever wondered why decisions take so long in your organization?

#203: Earn Your Daily Brat Once a Year 05.05.2021 1:00 ↓

Listen up, you many kids of all ages. It’s almost Mother’s Day. You know what that means, don’t you? Florists are happy as flowers are sacrificed. What about mothers? Believe it or not, this one-day be-nice behavior does not fool mothers. They worry about your conduct on the other 364 days.

#202: Don’t Waste a Nonsense Moment 27.04.2021 1:00 ↓

We "Teach Our Nonsense Well". Now we should pity our poor children.

#201: I Win if You Lose but We Survive Together 20.04.2021 1:00 ↓

Humans are strange. We dominate the planet mainly because of our ability to work together. Yet we compete like crazy.

#200: Delegate Dumbly or Delegate Smartly, It’s Your Call 13.04.2021 1:00 ↓

Now is not the time to do stupid things just to prove how valuable you are to your employer. Like doing more and working harder.

#199: Team Building Makes Me Nervous 06.04.2021 1:00 ↓

Spring is in the air and I can almost hear consultants and HR people planning this year's team building events.

#198: Lighten up to put the spring in Spring 30.03.2021 1:00 ↓

One of the first new skills I learned after arriving in the USA was time management. No, not productivity management, but how to time my falling back and springing forward.

#197: Always on makes your day off 23.03.2021 1:00 ↓

Do people seem a little off lately? Do you feel a little off? Here’s why, I think.

#196: Making the case for nut-cases at work 16.03.2021 1:00 ↓

Encourage a bit of weirdness at work. Until you know for sure whether it promotes or stifles progress. Then protect it or kill it. 

#195: Six servings of impact on the corporate ladder 09.03.2021 1:00 ↓

The problem with ambition at work is that there are always shoes on the rung above the one you are balancing on.

#194: To escape the lions, be good at trust and compliance 02.03.2021 1:00 ↓

Have you heard the one about me being charged by a lioness? Of course you have! I keep telling it. Because she changed me.

#193: The glare that will not see your ship come in 23.02.2021 1:00 ↓

Once upon a time committed shareholders went to the harbor to see their ship sail. And then, much, much later, they went to the harbor to see if it had come in. In between sailing and berthing, they lived patiently with the risk they had taken. They had no option.

#192: Lead with a view of the lead 16.02.2021 1:00 ↓

Looking up (at leaders) is a downer. It need not be. 

#191: The bonus in storming right 09.02.2021 1:00 ↓

When trouble looms or problems multiply, what do the brave do? They brainstorm. Well, I don’t like the typical brainstorm.

#190: Peck here to go insane over and over 04.02.2021 1:00 ↓

With crazy things happening daily, I feel compelled to ask, "Are we insane?"

#189 Be a talker, not a fighter 26.01.2021 1:00 ↓

Then collaborate, don’t co-operate. (Explained in #191.2 and #191.3)

#188: Update yourself before you’re outdated 19.01.2021 1:00 ↓

If you don’t or won’t update, you’ll be passed over or passed by.

#187: Evolution stuck at the level of the meanest muttering 13.01.2021 1:00 ↓

What happens when we no longer frown on even simple rudeness

#186: You can change history-in-the-making, but not after the Big Day 04.01.2021 1:00 ↓

Which is why you should pity poor Santa and yourself