Don’t Press That Button!
My dad used to have a little sports car, an Austin Healy. I cannot remember every detail about that car but I do remember a little label he had right above the ignition key: “Engage Brain Before Engaging Engine” A similar reminder would be useful above every computer screen or on every smart phone: “Rethink […]
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- May, 04, 2015
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May, 04, 2015
Keep Your Folks on the Payroll
Sometimes the best examples come from your friends rather than from research. My friend works for a major government contractor in the US, and the contract was up for renewal last month. Unfortunately, the government office for which they are working dropped the ball on their administrative requirements, and they did not run all the […]
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- Apr, 27, 2015
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Separating Work and Real Life
As a grad student, I was always thinking about school. I can remember having deep thoughts about organizational theory while in the shower (my water bills tended to be high as a result). I felt sorry for friends who asked how my dissertation was going because they typically got a 3-hour report in excruciating detail […]
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- Posted in Health and Balance
- Mar, 04, 2015
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Hair Cell-On
Today I stopped into a salon in Bangkok where I saw something that I don’t see that often in the States (though admittedly, I am operating with a small sample size in terms of salons). A stylist had finished up one fellow’s hair and was giving him a neck-and-shoulder massage, which is a great custom […]
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- Posted in Leading
- Dec, 12, 2014
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Book Review: The 2020 Workplace
I first read Jeanne Meister’s and Karie Willyerd’s The 2020 Workplace back in 2010, and I found it to be a very useful and engaging book that added a lot to a course I was teaching at the time. A student had recommended it as a good discussion of generational diversity, but as I went […]
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- Dec, 10, 2014
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