I’ve been extolling the wonders of Warren Kinston’s Strengthening the Management Culture (SMC) for the past few months. It’s not the equal of his meatier Working With Values: The Software of the Mind but has the virtue of being one fifth that tome’s length. (It’s really thick: there’s just so much in it.)
One of the [...]

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If you’ve been following my discussions of Kinston and Algie’s Seven Languages of Achievement (aka Seven Decision Languages), here’s a good example of what someone who is a structuralist sounds like when talking to a pragmatist.
The manager, like most managers, is a pragmatist working in a pragmatist company. “Get ‘er done” is the motto. The [...]

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Recently, Vincent asked the following in a comment to “A Brief Thanks for the Chance to Complain About Work“:

“Do the work to get work that fits.”
How do I figure out which work fits me best. In every job I’m carving for another opportunity, another type of job, another way of life.
Which questions do I have [...]

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It always surprises me that caring, thinking people don’t seem to understand the problems of hidden high potentials. I had to stand up (again!) for a friend at his wedding this last weekend. He’s German and marrying my sister-in-law, so it’s been more work than usual. I’ve stood up so many times I could write [...]

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The newsletter comes out today, and with client pressures, I feel the time crunch. But somehow I started to think about work, work levels, fit work, and my ancestors.
I advocate everyone having work that fits. I know that it is the best way to get the most out of someone, and that many of the [...]

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