The Economist recently published a blog post with a theme sure to warm the hearts of anyone who recently shelled out some coin for the latest management treatise that screamed out the need to cram 25 hours into the day and simply work your competition into the ground. “In praise of laziness” takes to task the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Things That Nobody Gets
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
Forbes recently had an article suggesting that 20-somethings are missing some important facts about success in life and work. The author, aged 34, referred to himself as a curmudgeon in relation to his team of millenials at his self-created business. Beside the chuckle thatwelled up in me reading that, when I reviewed a list of […]
Is the Interview Started? – Leading Self
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
The point at which you make a decision to attempt to advance your position in your current job can come at many points. It may have been when you were first considering joining an organization in the first place. It may have been after you started (at the bottom) and having put in some time and […]
What Happens When The Music Stops? – Managing Conflict
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
One of the most critical moments for an organization is that point when a crisis looms. It might be brought on by a resource issue, and hard decisions had to be made about the way forward. Or, it could be because the organization just spent some time trying to figure out what was value added and what was […]
When Change Hurts
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
If you take the King’s shilling, as the quote goes, “you do the King’s bidding”. When the King starts to run out of shillings, things start to happen. One of the likely and predictable consequences of having a lesser number of shillings is the possibility that there might need to be a smaller organization in […]
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