It’s been interesting to hear the conversations about the quality of work satisfaction in the past year. While anecdotal, the trends seemed to move to a higher level of dissatisfaction. Job satisfaction is often a variable in a business environment—for a lot of reasons. In recent conversations however, this seems to be a fixed state, [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Is Management A Throw Away Category In Business?
Posted in Business, Employee Development, Leadership, Management, Training, tagged Business, Employee Development, Hiring, Management, Training on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Frequent Flying: Sometimes The Destination Is Better Than The Journey
Posted in Business, Travel, tagged Business, Travel, travel humor on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone who has racked up the frequent flier miles, we will tell you that it isn’t all glamour and fun. You may get a fresh mint on your pillow at night, room service and fresh towels each day, but rarely does that compare to the comforts of home. I started to think about my [...]
Are You Busy Or Productive? Task Saturation, Part 2
Posted in Business, Time Management, tagged Business, Organizational Priorities, Task Saturation, Time Management on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the first part of this series, we talked about task saturation in terms of its impact to our productivity, accuracy, etc. It is deceiving in the sense that we are genuinely busy all day long, but busy and productive are not always the same thing. Task saturation strips you of your productivity and can paralyze [...]
Are You Busy Or Productive? Task Saturation, Part 1
Posted in Business, Time Management, tagged Business, Task Saturation, Time Management, Work Priorities on July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For most professionals, it is not unusual to come into your day with one set of priorities and have five more things heaped onto the list by Noon. For example, a business owner may find that their role morphs into accountant, bill collector, errand boy (or girl), customer service rep, janitor, office manager, light bulb [...]
Can You Have Too Many Organizational Priorities? Part 2
Posted in Business, Organizational Priorities, tagged Business, Organizational Priorities, Strategic Change on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the first part of the series, I gave an example of how one company had a lot of great ideas which turned into a lot of priorities to take on in one year. I used the analogy of shooting fish in a barrel. You ruin the barrel and generally miss the fish—you might even [...]
Can You Have Too Many Organizational Priorities? Part 1
Posted in Business, Customer Management, Leadership, Organizational Priorities, tagged Business, Change Management, Customer Management, Organizational Change, Organizational Priorities, Strategic Change on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Can you have too many organizational priorities? Yup! Organizational priorities generally trickle down to management objectives and when those objectives become another full time job and/or completely take your focus off the primary job, you’ve got too many. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. How well does that really work when you could just [...]
Grab Your Passport Gen Y!!
Posted in Business, Career Management, Gen Y, tagged Business, Career Management, Gen Y, Risk Taking, Travel on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, I would like to thank my friends for inspiration, because at some point they may stop going to dinner with me. That said, I had dinner with friends this weekend and one of them has the opportunity to live abroad for a year. She’s 23. I say that because some of the counter arguments (from [...]
