I have read many things that say when we’re close to having a vacation we work twice as hard in trying to clear our desks off and finish all work so that, when we get back, we won’t have a mountain of work to try to catch up on. I’ve been thinking about that lately […]
(originally published July 20th, 2005) There was this commercial last year for Citibank where one woman asked another woman when the baby was due. When the other woman said she wasn’t pregnant, and was ready to challenge the first woman, the first woman said “thank you”. The second woman was stunned, said “Who, me?”, and […]
(originally published October 13th, 2005) I usually go about my business thinking two things in general. One, I believe people are inherently good, but sometimes do bad things. Two, I believe people are generally intelligent, just not at everything. It’s this second one that probably gets me the most frustrated, and one that all leaders […]
(originally published April 11th, 2006) Yesterday I was talking to another consultant about something we’d gone back and forth with for about two weeks. I asked him if he’d called the party that I said he should call to verify the information before I did what he was asking me to do, fully knowing that […]
(originally published March 14th, 2006) Last Friday, I got home from a consulting assignment, only to learn from a phone message that the father of one of my good friend’s had passed away. This friend is a few years younger than me, but the lives our fathers lead, and parts of the lives we each […]
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