September 1, 2007
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Before you think I have become date-disoriented take the next 2 minutes to think outside of the calendar.
I know, you normally think of New Year’s Day being January 1st. According to the calendar it is January 1st but if you go to school, you teach school, have had a long summer vacation, […]
Looking for some easy, common sense tips on how to be a better slacker manager? Look no further than this Manager’s Cheat Sheet of 101 Common Sense Rules for Leaders.
Some of my favorite tips from the list:
8. Always smile. Smiles are contagious and will make others feel positive when you’re around.
19. Make sure expectations are […]
On my way to work this morning my trusty SUV rolled over 177777 miles. Now that’s not a big milestone, but a neat one to see on the odometer. It got me to thinking about personal milestones and how we measure where we are in life.
So often we try to measure our lives […]
I was cruising through the Internet, minding my own business, when suddenly I see a link to a site that says “Nobody should work with a jerk! Make sure you’re not working for an abusive or bad boss.” I clicked the link and came upon eBossWatch. As a manager, I thought to myself, “Am I […]
Before I started my Getting Things Done practice I had some vague ideas about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to go with it. I had not done any serious thinking about priorities or how to get where I wanted to be in the future.
The process of creating a […]
When was the last time you tried out?
What did you try out for? Did you make the cut?
As the father of 3 sports-playing-teenagers who have experienced a wide range of tryouts I thought I would tryout for Slacker Manager. I feel like I am in a hockey rink about to show my backward skating as […]
I have this stupid love/hate relationship with goal setting. On one hand I get all jazzed about a new goal and I get energized by the thinking and strategizing that goes into developing plans for world domination meeting the goal. On the other hand, in some ways I look down upon the whole process as […]
Jeffrey Phillips tagged me on this meme, so I’ll be a good sport and participate. I guess I’m supposed to list five things that aren’t generally known about me:
I wear a bone conducting hearing aid
I’d rather be surfing
I taught English in South Korea
I’ve bungee jumped (3 times!) off a bridge in Washington State
I’ve climbed Monkey […]
UPDATE: Here’s mine!
Though I’ve been remiss about pointing it out, hopefully you haven’t missed it. In case you have, here’s your chance to catch up with the rest of us. Rajesh Setty, an entrepreneurial powerhouse who blogs at Life Beyond Code, has taken the bull by the horns and has asked a TON of people […]
About a year ago, Kathy Sierra wrote a nice post that riffed on a keynote speech by Paul Graham that she’d recently attended. Relatedly, ChangeThis recently posted a manifesto by Graham called “The Power of the Marginal” which I highly recommend reading.
All this got me thinking about how often ego gets in the way of […]
Roman has a good recent post on how to find a mentor at work. There’s a comment on the post that hints that it isn’t possible to recruit a mentor and that they must find you rather than the other way around. The post also hints that if your mentor didn’t seek you as a […]
Lisa Haneberg interviewed me for a podcast that she’s got up on her site right now. We talked about all kinds of stuff, including managerial excellence, a little bit about MBA programs, etc.
This was the second version we did–the first one had some glitches and apparently, if it were to be used, Lisa would’ve […]
I just got turned onto Zaadz.com, which is a social networking site. Zaadz is kinda the MySpace for thinkers interested in changing the world. It attracts a fair chunk of the treehugger contingent (I say that with love for my treehugging brothers and sisters), but there are also a lot of straight up businesspeople interested […]
David Maister nails it:
The crucial first step - taking ownership and responsibility when you feel that you are not being well understood - is a huge challenge for most of us, personally and professionally. How often have you had a disagreement with a family member, only to give up in frustration when they “just won’t […]
I’ve recently finished reading Rushkoff’s latest book, Get Back In The Box, which talks about the fallacy of much “out of the box” thinking. This is more of a quick commentary on a section of the book (though I’ll get a formal review up later…short version: I liked it) than an actual review.
One passage in […]
Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall.
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