…That company was not atypical of any other company I’ve worked for. It was no more or less dysfunctional than other environments I’ve seen. And in our contemporary environments we pump our people full of inspirational propaganda about taking initiative and empowering themselves at the same time we yank the carpets out from under them. We tell them that a lousy 4th quarter meant a tiny bonus pool in the same presentation we tell our shareholders we reported record profits. We tell them we’d reward them if they’d take more ownership of their work, and then throw the act of reviewing to the peers they compete with…
Read more and share your opinion →I’m always prattling on about trust. It’s the key ingredient in any aspect of business. Today I’m going to tell you about an example of abused trust. The gist is, the Southern Ontario Mini Club organized a charity drive, and informed the cops as a courtesy, that they would be [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So I’m going to go off the deep end a little bit today, and talk about something that really upsets me. The topic? Spending money on Ham-Fisted Let’s-Be-Happy Employee Team Building Programs without taking the time to understand the state of employee morale.
I’m not saying team building programs have no place. In the right [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Okay, so I feel the need to take my views on PM2.0 further. On Friday I posted a piece about what I perceive as an overreaction to new tools on the marketplace for project managers to take advantage of. There seems to be a contention that the tools are either going to hurt [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So there seems to be much controversy over this PM2.0 thing. I’m going to state my opinion here for the record.
When I first heard the concept of PM2.0, I didn’t really pay much attention. My view of it was, people are adopting some of the emerging online tools for use in a project capacity. [...]
Read more and share your opinion →Okay, okay, the video isn’t really the right way to handle this particular problem. It’s just what flashes through my mind when confronted with that particular scenario.
Read more and share your opinion →Here’s the thing. I don’t know about anybody else, but if I don’t understand what you’re saying, I’m going to ask you to explain. I would say 8 times out of 10, no matter what someone says to me can be reduced down to a small handful of 4 and 5 letter words.
Read more and share your opinion →Okay, rant time. Something that has bugged me on just about every project I’ve ever been on is the over dependence on e-mail. I’m going to use the word “you” a lot here. It’s not directed at you reading this per se but rather the people I’ve had to mercilessly beat with a club over the course of my career.
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