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Resist

Sometimes You Need a Kick

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And Alec delivers in Glengarry Glennross.

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Don’t Stop Believin’

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A coworker of mine owns a part of a local club that just so happens to have Journey cover band Frontiers playing. And he had a bunch of free tickets to donate. Sometimes cubicles work out!

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Why Worry?

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Your project could be worse. Example:

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Bring Your Child to Work Day

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Bring Your Child to Work Day

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Cubicle Judgement Day – Ghostbuster’s Style

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You know how projects turn up all of this work just as a project is about to end? I call the last day Judgement Day. Here’s why.

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Promotion Advice from MASH

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Want to get promoted? I’ve just started reading MASH: a Novel About  Three Army Doctors – you know, the paperback that started the wildly popular MASH television show? There is some excellent job advice in here: “This Blake must have a problem or he wouldn’t be sending for help. Maybe we’re that help.” “Right,” the [...]

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Remembering

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Sorry all. No funny videos in this week’s Friday Video. Just what’s been on my mind. VT VT – Each victim Niki’s Convocation George W Convocation

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Ghostbuster’s Lessons Learned

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Some unfortunate cubicle denizens are made to do a “lessons learned” session at project end. Ostensibly this is for the project teams to prevent future errors by learning from past mistakes.

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Performance Management

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I recently attended a “Town Hall” meeting at work. Not surprisingly, the bulk of the meeting covered the sweeping changes in the bonus and merit system. After this presentation I hung up 2 of the slides on my Bulletin Board as reminders. The first was Performance Management. The second was Bonus Attributes. I find visual [...]

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Lost and Found

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How many people reading this had dreams of growing up to be a rock star? Not me, I knew that I had zero musical talent. But this kid does. Sure, some cynics might look at this and say “I bet his parents make him practice night and day.” Sure, they might. But is that bad? Perhaps, if you go under the assumption the boy has no say in whether he wants to play or not.

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