Tag: management
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Show Up. Or, Why Omelets Don’t Matter.
Note: this is a classic post from July 2012, hope you enjoy. We’re all presented with a thousand decisions in a day – even the ones we don’t make are technically decisions – and I observed a few today and I thought I would share as I feel they are: 1. Completely random – so…
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Don’t be a Lumberg – The Sacred Duty of All Leaders
Yeah. I’m posting a commercial. It works. It works, unfortunately, because we’ve all been there. Some of us are there right now. “Ah! You see this bulk? This bulk is great. Mmmmm. Look at it go.” If you’re responsible for other people you have a sacred duty to not waste their time. You have an…
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You Shouldn’t Get Through This…
The beauty of zen sand gardens is inherent for a fundamental reason: zen gardens exist, so we can exist in them. There is no other purpose than to place ourselves back in ourselves. No one tries to get through the process to the other side. There is no other side – only ourselves and the sand. Since…
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Own Your Mistakes – A feel good story about a true above and beyond.
When we make mistakes it’s good to own them. Don’t dawdle, don’t justify, don’t downplay – just own it quickly and honestly. A couple of weeks ago we made a mistake at work and we inconvenienced one of our Residents in a big way. It was a perfectly honest mistake, but in the process it appears we…
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Thank God It’s Monday! No, Seriously…
I have a confession: I love Mondays. Yeah, you heard it – Mondays rule. Mondays suck for some people. They used to suck for me. I first learned “TGIF” when I was in elementary school. First heard my parents play drive-time afternoon radio on the way home from school about how awesome it was that…
Robert H Myers 