Recently some Republican politicians have gone back to their respective areas of the country to pitch cost cutting measures that they believe will help the country get back on its financial feet. Unexpectedly, they’ve run into many protests or angry people at those meetings that are expressing their displeasure at the plan. This has sent […]
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about an issue he’s having where he works. The main issue is that there’s a supervisor that’s basically harassing him and he doesn’t like it. The supervisor isn’t someone he reports to; that’s a major issue. When he reported it to his manager the guy […]
This morning I was at a meeting for consultants. We were talking about another organization, called the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). This is an organization I used to belong to, that I’m thinking about possibly rejoining at some point in the future, but just haven’t been enthused lately. The conversation got around […]
If there’s anything I can’t stand hearing about, it’s stories about management level people who don’t know how to treat employees like adults. These are the types who ask employees to do something and then when they do it and find out that those above them don’t like it they act like the employees did […]
One of the things I felt I was great at as a director was figuring out what was best for the organization overall from my department. In other words, though I wanted accuracy, if I had to weigh perfection against bringing in consistently high dollars I went for the consistency. In my opinion, it was […]
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