NonsenseAtWork

#135: You Could Be on the Downhill to Sticky Success 16.07.2020 1:00 ↓

Do this in July if you don’t want to repeat January’s resolutions next year

#134: Go With the Flow Until You Are Hungry 15.07.2020 1:00 ↓

Why I questioned one of my favorite seven rules to easy success.

#133: When You’re Feeling Down, Look Up 14.07.2020 1:00 ↓

You probably have scattered thinking blues

#132: If You Don’t Get It, Fill It or Zip It 09.07.2020 1:00 ↓

Two strategies for so much to know in so little time.

#131: Failure comes from tools to blame 08.07.2020 1:00 ↓

I often catch myself thinking, “If only I had that smart phone app, or this new tablet or that thin laptop or this stunning software, then I will....”

#130: Lazy likes it hotter 07.07.2020 1:00 ↓

People who show little respect for their personal space are unlikely to show respect for public space. This lack of respect is killing our planet.

#129: How to step lightly and smell like roses 02.07.2020 1:00 ↓

Here's a tried and tested way to create more time to smell the roses.

#128: To succeed, don’t play nice at work 01.07.2020 1:00 ↓

Do you work for a nice organization? You do? I’m so sorry to hear that. Nice is not always successful.

#127: Which will you be, stubbornly persistent or persistently stubborn? 30.06.2020 1:00 ↓

If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Except that sometimes you will appear to be stubbornly persistent and at others persistently stubborn.

#126: Seek multiple sources of unlikeable feedback 25.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Tell me, what is worse than not asking for feedback? Yes, not heeding feedback is rather bad. But having only one source of feedback is even worse.

#125: Rough becomes smooth and so should you 23.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Take a look at pebbles in a stream. Which ones do you like, the smooth, round ones, or the sharp, rough ones?

#124: Speak funny so that others will understand you 19.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Do you listen to hear or do you listen to understand?

#123: Be wise enough to stay positively stupid 18.06.2020 1:00 ↓

What is wisdom? If you don’t know, then you are obviously not wise enough. But don’t worry, if you live long enough you will be.

#122: Don’t let perceived rules trigger conditioned nonsense 16.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Why don’t you slow down when you drive at night? Here’s why. Because the posted speed signs tell you not to.

#121: A bully at the top promotes team work 10.06.2020 1:00 ↓

The typical organization is a hierarchy of imbalanced power, which makes it a perfect bully factory. Unless the leaders stop it.

#120: Here's the one skill we don't need in our leaders 09.06.2020 1:00 ↓

If there is one thing I have learned in the land obsessed with leadership, then it’s this. I’m a silly old fool.

#119: The right way to be all right is to be comfortably wrong 04.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Being right is a moment-to-moment affair. Right becomes wrong as easily as wrong becomes right.

#118: Cut out playacting to re-invent forward, not backward 03.06.2020 1:00 ↓

Any fool can rewrite history and only fools will believe him, which is why I’m not jealous of that skill.

#117: Advice for wannabe leaders: Keep your shoes on 02.06.2020 1:00 ↓

What exactly would you feel if you put your feet into someone else’s shoes?

#116: How to know which lead in leadership you should use 28.05.2020 1:00 ↓

What do the letters “L E A D” spell?  Lead as in leader or lead as in heavy?

#115: Why we still don’t believe your “I didn’t do it!” 27.05.2020 1:00 ↓

Too many people in power don’t understand what it means to be responsible. Responsibility is the ability to respond.

#114: Why we walk the same path with different expectations 26.05.2020 1:00 ↓

To this day, I imagine lions and elephants where none are to be expected.

#113: Please care enough to criticize someone you like 21.05.2020 1:00 ↓

When people stop caring about you, they stop criticizing you. They have written you off and given you up.

#112: How to make big decisions easier to take 20.05.2020 1:00 ↓

Few of us enjoy making big decisions. And yet make them we must. So it helps to understand a few things about big decisions.

#111: Why you are the anchor in the puzzle of your life 19.05.2020 1:00 ↓

A single piece of a jigsaw puzzle makes little sense. When linked correctly with other pieces, the sense appears.