Welcome to the 12 days of management.
This series will start on the 12th. of December and end on the 25th. of December.
You guessed it: I have used the structure of the 12 Days of Christmas to look at what we in middle management can receive and give (Thanks to Rosa Say for making giving and receiving […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love fun at work I just resent when someone says we must have FUN at work. This is when I feel like one of Michael Scott’s (NBC television show The Office) employees who are coerced into engaging in FUNtivities.
My Master’s thesis was on humor in counseling. Humor and playfulness are my top signature […]
How do the people you manage feel about you? Do they love you or leave you?
How do you feel about the person who manages you? After another unproductive meeting do you curse your fate and feel hate for your manager?
Bruce L. Katcher along with Adam Snyder have written 30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What […]
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 […]
This is a question for any fountain pen aficionados out there: how do you jumpstart your ink flow after letting your pen rest overnight (or a couple of days)?
This has always bothered me, and I’ve tried a variety of solutions. The “lick it” trick (over and over until the ink flows freely); the dip in […]
Gleaned from my personal experience as a boss, here’s one way to approach this:
When the boss is out of the office on Friday, call them up and appeal to their sense of safety. Tell them that one of their employees needs a new desk in order to prevent injury. The boss’s desk is the […]
Hey, social events in Portland are heating up these days, but if you’re still looking for something interesting, Lisa Haneberg is coming to town on Sunday, May 20. We’ll be having dinner at Gustav’s near Washington Square. Meet at 6pm, done whenever we’re done. Dwayne was gonna come too, but he’s gotta go to Prague. […]
Just airing a personal peeve here. Many people use the word “obvious” too liberally. If it really is obvious, then there’s no need to point that out (obviously). If it isn’t obvious, then saying that it is will likely not have the effect of making you look smart, but rather have the effect of irking […]
I’m on vacation and not really keeping up with things, but Ron at BrandCurve sent a note around about Kathy Sierra getting some very uncool comments on her blog. There has always been a segment of blog culture that thrilled on being edgy and controversial. Sometimes for the links, sometime because they really believe what […]
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 […]
This cracks me up! First person to show me the money can drive away with Slacker Manager today! :-)
My blog is worth $250,655.76.How much is your blog worth?
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I’m not much of a back pocket wallet guy. Used to be, but then I got a Levenger money clip wallet thing a few years ago and fully made the switch to any-pocket-but-the-back-pocket wallet carrying. The Levenger money clip didn’t last nearly long enough, and then they quit selling it. I bounced around a few […]
I’d rather go surfing than do just about anything else. It calms me, centers me, feeds my soul and plus it’s fun. But since the beach is just over an hour’s drive away, I don’t go as often as I’d like. So I look for alternate forms of “therapy.”
We’ve got a great skatepark in our […]
What’s the deal with guys who wear belts and suspenders (braces) at the same time? What happened to them to make them so paranoid about their pants falling down? Maybe that’s too harsh–maybe they’ve just got a terribly misguided sense of style. All I know is that it kinda freaks me out whenever I see […]
I installed a sweet plugin the other day which pulls Feedburner and Google Analytics into one summary screen in the Wordpress admin stuff. I love it, very helpful.
For instance, it helps me know that 666 people (aka, The Devil) stopped by the blog yesterday. Didn’t know The Devil read blogs, but I can’t say I’m […]
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