Virtual workers should interview themselves first…

Sara’s post at Pajama Professional about asking yourself tough questions before starting a home business (here) made me think about the challenges of telecommuting and virtual work.  I had been tagged for an interview about the topic — I didn’t make the cut — and my team is almost entirely virtual.  The topic is always [...]

“How to wake up early” blog…

One of the most unique blog themes I’ve seen is the how to wake up early? blog.  It hasn’t been updated in a while, perhaps all that early rising takes its toll.  However, there are lots of spot-on tips about how to become an early riser (if one is so inclined, of course).
My early career [...]

Resentments and Doghouses

From my recent tag surfing spree, here’s a post from Barry Zweibel on making sure that one’s doghouse doesn’t get too full (here … hat tip: Your Executive Edge here).  His first paragraphs set up the story well:
We get mad. We get cranky. We judge. We blame. We put people on ice. Send them to Siberia. [...]

Travel Tip: You have to leave before you can come home

I was moping a bit before leaving for China and India when my bright and beautiful wife nodded indulgently and said: “Well, you do need to leave before you can come home…”
It was a good thought to have in my head as I headed out to the airport. The outbound leg is always the toughest [...]

Embedding Employee Engagement in your processes

Mike King at Learn This has a fairly long post on promoting employee engagement (here) — one last Hat Tip to the PM Blog Carnival (here).  I liked the thoughts in this passage especially:
Make it Part of The System … In order to ensure that employee engagement is something that gets attention, is measured and has [...]

A contrary view on boredom

Phil B. has a little different take on boredom at work than I do (here).  Per an earlier post, I believe it is my responsibility to not be bored (here).  I certainly agree with him about the side effects of boredom at work:
Job stagnation can lead to much more than just boredom. First, job stagnation [...]

Improving Trust

Extending my earlier post (here) on Charles Green’s Trust Quotient test (here), improving my strength in Credibility is related to my weakness: “Work on the “softer” sides of credibility—truthfulness, being more open, sharing more truth—about the emotional as well as the rational side of things.”
As you might guess, my primary weakness is in Intimacy, which [...]

Overthinking and Decision Making

Ah, the dubious pleasures of overthinking…  I recently had been reminded of my overthinking pathology by someone who has known me a while (BTW, if you’re reading this I hope you’re well and taking care); so I smiled with recognition when I read this Wall Street Journal’s article (here).
There’s a lot of grist for the ol’ [...]

Results from my Trust Quotient test

Here’s my Trust Quotient Score (as promised in posts here and here).  I hope this doesn’t mean you all have to watch your back ;-)
Your TQ score is in a normal mid-range, though at the lower end…it typically means you are particularly strong or particularly weak in 1-2 Trust Equation components.  If your score for all [...]

This research proves that I’m highly evolved…

Now here’s a dangerous article…per my comment to Jonathan at Manage by Walking Around, maybe I shouldn’t have read it before slamming Yahoo.  Schadenfreude and karma indeed…
Anyway, it comforts me that this article claims that sarcasm may well be an evolutionary adaptation (here).  Not surprisingly given my recent snarky tone, I agree that there is something to this:
Sarcasm, [...]