Recognition. We've been trained to believe that everyone needs it.
Do they?
I think so, but something that's lost in the recognition/engagement market is that for many blue collar workers, getting recognition in front of their peers actually makes them feel Blue collarlike a dork/brown-noser.
Some notes from my life follow... My dad, Kent Dunn (RIP CKD), was a lifetime telephone/telecom lineman. One of the...
Nails on the chalkboard...
Atlanta traffic...
Other people's snoring...
YouTube ads...
Waiting in a line more than 4 people deep...
These things? All things that reasonable people agree we can hate. You don't like those things. Neither do I.
Let's add something to that list from corporate America. Something we all should hate and agree it must be stomped out - like the pox on society it is.
File At...
Working from home. It used to be great and still is for many of us, but there's a canary in the coal mine that's emerging that could take the joy out of your sweats/PJs/hat game.
That thing? It's called video meetings. And it's increasingly required for the simplest of calls you need to take.
The trend is positive. When you're working remote, you can take phone calls and be pretty absent, especiall...
Got a call yesterday for interview prep advice. Great candidate, looking to take the next step with another company. My friend was in the best position he could be in related to the interview - he has direct experience working with the technology required and he was a external referral of the PERSON BEING PROMOTED OUT OF THE ROLE.
There's just this one little problem. He was anticipating a behavioral interview....
By now you've heard the news coming out of Uber. We always knew that this startup darling had a rough and tumble culture, and let's face it - sometimes that's needed to spark innovation. But reasonable people know you can have a performance-based culture without creating an environment full of bad stuff - including harassment.
If you've always wanted to get budget for manager/leadership training, now is...
Let's face it. If you follow college basketball at all, there's a high likelihood you hate Duke. Why?
Duke as a university smacks of privilege, and the basketball program polarizes people like the Cowboys or the Yankees, without attracting as much of a loyal following - the concentration and comparison is mainly on the hate side.
And then there's the little issue of race. Combine the status of the unive...
Rule #1 in the Heisenberg Rules is ACKNOWLEDGE HIGH PERFORMANCE:
The biggest transformation you'll find in Breaking Bad is the growing confidence of Walter White (WW). Once a high school chemistry teacher working a Walter_Whitesecond job where he's routinely berated by a car wash owner with a unibrow and 3 fewer degrees that what he holds, Walt's transformation into a capable meth producer delivers one import...
How hard is it to be a manager of people at McDonalds? Hard. Like riding a bike on the freeway hard.
This week found me for almost 2 days at Exit 11 off I-20 in Georgia, stranded because of the South's Snowpocalypse, which was caused because when you don't own a snowplow, salt or sand, 3 inches of snow and ice in hard freeze temperatures can screw things up.
So I got the last room at a Microtel (no lobby res...
In a post-Trump world where AI is increasingly eliminating jobs that aren't coming back to the states - or to earth for that matter - it's a good exercise to think about workforce development/retraining alternatives that are out there.
Let's look at one of those alternatives that has been especially hot. Coding bootcamps, which are Code camp 12- or 14-week programs that teach software engineering - are incre...
Professional awesomeness. You've got it. The world needs to know about it.
I've mentioned in the past that you need a plan if you want real career traction. Some of my rants have focused on the reality that you have to be willing to tell the world about everything you've accomplished. If you don't do it, no one else will.
Now here's the tricky part - you have to share your awesomeness without looki...