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Mindlessness
You’re in a meeting. Maybe it’s useful, maybe it isn’t. But presumably, if you all could just focus for half an hour, you might reach
Wellbeing
Don’t shout it from the rooftops, but most managers and most employees in a workplace have good intentions. Really. And one of the commonest good
Perhaps it was easy to have a strong opinion if you were Ben Bradlee
The late, legendary journalist and seventies-era Washington Post editor was known for his muscular views on such things as journalistic independence, but by then he
When the Stick Has no Carrot
It’s time we got real about the Carrot and the Stick. All the management books tell us about “motivation”, as though it’s a transitive verb,
If you don’t go fire-walking, you’re not a team player
So came the edict from the management of a large company, a brand known to everyone in America. And the luckless managers involved – well,
The Government Did Something Good
In these days of criticizing our civil servants, we forget when they do something really terrific. Imagine, for a moment, the gargantuan size of our
The End of HR
Not so long ago, the HR department was all-powerful. They were the deciders on hiring and firing, the people who had the ear of the
Why the VA Will Never Get It
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him”. – Ludwig Wittgenstein We all know that the VA is in trouble for gaming the
A Losing Battle at the VA
Embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned this Friday, May 30, in the wake of a growing scandal over some VA managers publishing misleading statistics about
Teleconfusion
Teleconferencing, virtual meetings, and online learning – what’s not to love? As it turns out, plenty. There are many good reasons to want to believe
Holding Hands and Singing Kumbaya
We’ve all been there. The team trainer says “Together Everyone Achieves More”, or “There’s no ‘I’ in Team”. Eyes roll, people sigh, everyone settles in
Teamwork and the New Science
What’s the worst “team building” event you’ve ever been on? If you’re thinking about the time you had to play a lame roleplaying game a