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A Day Off

A child sleeping.

It’s another Monday and I’m sure everyone is feverishly assaulting the work week already. I’m with you – it’s going to be busy today and the rest of the week. But maybe I did something you didn’t recently and that may make a difference in how we fare the rest of the week. Not a bad management lesson as well. Continue reading

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What’s Ya Culcha?

That’s a horrible title for SEO purposes, I know, since I’ve misspelled “Culture” which is today’s topic.  Not high-brow entertainment or the ones found in yogurt.  Nope.  Today we talk about the culture that surrounds us at work.  That term – corporate culture – and what it represents is not an object of focus often enough, in my opinion.  It’s often an after-thought;  something that evolves on its own because no one is really paying attention.  Sort of like mold.  And that’s a big mistake. Continue reading

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Ooops!

One of the changes in the air these days seems to be that people are taking responsibility for their screw-ups and apologizing.  I’m not talking about apologies of the lame “mistakes were made” sort.  Nope.  These are people who probably don’t have to apologize publicly given their stature but who are doing so very openly and very clearly: Continue reading

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