Try A Little Tenderness
Do you notice that it's far easier to accept bad news from cheerful people ("Sorry, sir, but the cappuccino machine is broken this morning.") than from people who have had their personalities surgically removed ("No cappuccino today, do you want
Hey, Honey, Can You Put Me Down for 2:15?
Just because you have an opinion—even about something that works well for you—doesn't mean it's valid for others and that you have the right to preach it as if you're on a higher moral plain. A guy on Linkedin wrote of
Please Don’t Upgrade Me, I’m Happy in the 1960s
Let me get this straight: An upgrade that was botched cost a kajillion dollars in cancelled travel, hospital surgeries postponed, and banking transaction failures, and we're afraid that AI is going to take over the world? Not as long as
Procrastination Is Fear
Procrastination is the result of the fear of producing something that will be negatively critiqued or unacceptable being far greater than the fear of being seen as late and delayed.
Confabulation
I've been listening to President Biden and he sometimes errs about his experiences and ranking in law school, what happened during his vice presidential tenure, and even having had cancer (which he did not). I'm not making any political judgments. What
Toxicity?
Suddenly everyone is talking about "toxic workplaces." They exist, I've seen a couple. But just because the boss tells you that you're not performing well and there are things you have to do to improve, doesn't mean you're in a toxic
How Are You Feeling Today?
Some days we simply don't allow someone to merge or to turn left as they approach our car. Some days we politely stop and allow these moves. It's not that we feel different about the drivers on those separate days, but
I’ll Get the Coffee for $15,000
A woman writes me on LinkedIn and wants to come to my $15,000 Thought Leadership Conference for free because she can "collaborate" with me and "fill a lot of shoes." She's a complete stranger and believes that this is the
Just How Far Does this Go?
I heard a diversity speaker, who did not have children, lecture us that she was "child-free" and not "childless." I asked her later if that meant I were "child-burdened." She didn't respond. Nor surprise there. How ridiculous does this get?
THEY Are the Problem!
Howard Beale's (Peter Finch's) cry in the 1976 film Network: “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!,” There is a surfeit of people "mad as hell" today who apparently "aren't going to take it anymore."