At one time or another I’ve had a boss do some of these. The one I hate the most, and absolutely loathe every single time, is the self-evaluation. Either you know what I’m doing and how well I’m doing it, or you don’t. Either way, what I say about it is pretty much irrelevant. If…
“I learned this hack at an event in San Francisco. The event provided free pizza and beer.There were two beer taps and attendees could help themselves. With a lack of networking opportunities falling into my lap, I decided to grab two slices, then pour myself a glass of beer. In front of the beer taps…
It was slightly over a year ago that I wrote about Tackling Depression for IT Workers. A year later, I saw this article –Silicon Valley Suicides: Austen Heinz, Depression And The Pressures of Running a Startup Business So not much has changed in the tech industry in a year. We’re still working ourselves straight into…
The lesson I took away from this article reminds me how important communication is to any relationship. More specifically, though, it made me think of the workplace. In the wake of San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake, as survivors sifted through rubble and fires raged, the city’s men and women responded to the chaos in an unusual way:…
“Gustavo Tanaka, co-founder of Brazilian start-up incubator Baobba Lab, put it bluntly: “No one can stand the employment model any longer.” “We are reaching our limits. People working with big corporations can’t stand their jobs,” Tanaka wrote in a Huffington Post blog on Dec. 16. “People want out. They want to drop everything. Take a…
According to recent research, not really. It isn’t any more of a drain on productivity than the same old things we did before the Internet. That’s not the only surprising thing you may find in this article: The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work On what we waste the most time doing…