A promotion sounds like success until you realize the new job takes you away from the work you liked and drops you into meetings, politics, pressure, and responsibility you never actually wanted.
Email was supposed to make communication faster. Instead, too many people use it as a courtroom where tone gets prosecuted, intent gets imagined, and the actual message gets buried under feelings.
n too many workplaces, the most competent person does not get rewarded. They get more work, more pressure, and everyone else’s unfinished problems dumped on their desk.
Some people are not productive. They are dressed up as productive, marching around with a full calendar, a serious face, and no actual results. Somewhere along the way, modern life confused motion with progress. Now we have people answering emails at midnight, color-coding calendars, joining five meetings before lunch, updating dashboards, posting “quick sync” notes, … Read more
Some meetings are not problem-solving sessions. They are stage productions where everyone plays a role, nobody owns the outcome, and the clock gets murdered in public. You know the kind. Ten people join. Three people speak. Two people pretend to take notes. One person says, “Let’s circle back.” Another says, “We need alignment.” Somebody mentions … Read more
Who in their right corporate minds fires someone and then gives them nine months to exit stage left? Colbert continues with his unfunny, liberal, political crap every night, trying his best to convince his network he is worth keeping. Hoping CBS will do a Jimmy Kimmel, kick him off, then bring him back. Let’s hope … Read more