NonsenseAtWork
By James McIntosh
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NonsenseAtWorkApr 29, 2024
Trigger Question #33: Do You Practice JIT or JIC Management?
If you have more than a few years of boss knowledge, then I am sure you can classify those you have known as either just-in-time teacher-managers or just-in-case micro-managers.
Insight #308: The Catch-22 of Modern Democracy
Catch-22 ensures that citizens cannot be against their government. Even if they say they are.
Trigger Question #32: You Saw the Problem. You Found the Fix. But Did You Act?
There's a divide between feeling the pain and finding a remedy. And there is a divide between knowing the remedy and implementing the remedy.
Insight #307: You Don’t Have To Like To Love
I had not always liked my colleagues at the various places I worked. But I often loved what we achieved as a team.
Trigger Question #31: Did You Cross a Nonsense Divide?
Merely being alive creates situations where an understanding you thought was clear, or a belief you held dear, clashes with your direct experience.
Trigger Question #30: Are You Inspired To Dream?
Let’s talk about big dreams, because big dreams trigger big fears. If they don't, then dream bigger.
Insight #306: When Abuse of the P Word Spoils It for Adults
Clearly, every workplace privilege or freedom has a dark side. We can abuse any privilege or freedom at the expense of someone else.
Trigger Question #29: Are You Tired Enough To Make Daft Decisions?
Like all odd behaviors, taking fewer vacations has a name. It’s called shrinking-vacation syndrome. If you ask me, it’s the shrinking self-confidence syndrome.
Insight #305: Behind the Wheel, Running Out of Life
We live as if we are still passengers in the family car. We ignore the moment we're living in, we fight with our neighbors (passengers and other drivers), and we whine, “Are we *where* yet?”
Trigger Question #28: Were You Purposely Ignorant This Week?
If you hold a leadership or a management position, then you have no right to be willfully ignorant.
Trigger Question #27: What Did You Assume (Incorrectly) About Others?
Try to interact with “other” people, those "different" people. Once you get over the shock, you’ll realize how much fun weirdness can be. You might even learn something useful.
Insight #304: The Smarter Your Phone, the Dumber You Are
Not so long ago, a skeptical generation held technology in check.
Trigger Question #26: Did You Misinterpret Reality Again?
When we make mistakes in interpreting reality, we respond ineffectively. Or we behave inappropriately. Or misbehave. Or all three.
Insight #303: Before Whining and Firing, Aim To Manage Wrong Into Right
You are a manager. You are supposed to manage problems into successes. Not successes into problems. So, before you start your whining and firing, be very sure that there is no way for you to manage the “wrong one” into being a “right one”.
Trigger Question #25: Did you create sense or nonsense?
Every time you encounter nonsense, you are free to decide whether you see “sense” or “non-sense.” You are, indeed, the creator of nonsense. Or of sense. Your choice.
Insight #302: Why Fairness at Work Is Seldom Fair
Surprise, surprise, research shows we are far more sensitive to being under-rewarded than over-rewarded. So we shouldn't be so hard on the what's-in-it-for-me generation.
Trigger Question #24: Did You Pick the Right Tone of Voice?
We read words. But we hear tone of voice.
Trigger Question #23: Was Your Justice Visible?
It matters little whether others know you corrected someone who has done something wrong. But it matters much when others don't know whether you disciplined someone for doing a wrong thing.
Insight #301: You Might Benefit From Paying a Little More
Fairness is a matter of perception and individuals can perceive inequity if they feel under-rewarded and, surprisingly, if they feel over-rewarded.
Trigger Question #22: Did you ask the right question?
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Insight 300: How To Deal With Those Who Climb Mountains Where There Are None
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Trigger Question #21: Did You Make Your Intentions Clear?
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Trigger Question #20: Did You Work on Your Plan B? And on Your Plan C?
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Insight #299: Being Ahead Does Not Make You a Leader
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Trigger Question #19: What Do You Do When the Going Gets Tough?
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Insight #298: How To Recognize Real Change When You See It
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Trigger Question #18: Do You Choose To Be Pre-Stressed or Flat-Bedded?
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Insight #297: This Is the Moment You Like Your Work Enough To Make It Matter
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Insight #296: Please Hold, Your Suggestion Is Unimportant to Us
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Trigger Question #17: Who had you covered, but got your back up?
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Trigger Question #16: Were You Hostile or Just Angry?
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Trigger Question #15: Have You Kicked an Employee Lately?
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Insight #295: Face the Right Way or Back Into the Wrong Problem
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Trigger Question #14: Did You See Differently or Your Same Old Same Old?
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Insight #294: The Evolved Way To Survive Is To Simplify Your Focus
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Trigger Question #13: Are You Aiming To Win or Trying Not To Lose?
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Trigger Question #12: Who Do You Feed When You Give Feedback?
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Insight #293: Find the Time To Make Your Point Quickly
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Trigger Question #11: How Did You Treat Others This Week?
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Insight #292: Getting Fired Began With Adam and Eve, but It Still Hurts
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Trigger Question #10: What’s your attitude now that your vote is history?
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Trigger Question #9: What Wise Thing Did You Do?
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Insight #291: The Secret to Making This a More Meaningful Year
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Trigger Question #8: Did You Drop Any History This Week?
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Insight #290: How To Decide How To Decide
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Trigger Question #7: Did You Pick the Right Mask for the Moment?
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Trigger Question #6: Do You Zoom Out to Recharge?
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Insight #289: Want To Succeed? Don’t Zigzag. Weave.
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Trigger Question #5: Did You Follow Your Gut or Your Heart?
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Insight #288: Don’t Be Resolute. Aim for the Power of the Easy Way.
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