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Share The off-topic part is that it involves baseball. The “semi-” part is that it’s about leadership, an all-too-rare quality. Morgan Ensberg is a former slightly-above-average infielder for the Houston Astros and a few other teams. But he’s also a keen observer of the game. (Related question: Why do great players rarely make great managers? There are exceptions [...] Share What do fake Rolexes, overpriced wine, and iPhones have in common? They’re sold the same way to the same types of consumers. Luckily, the wine and iPhones haven’t hit the spam-bucket the way watches have recently. Watch spam is probably running a close third to 419 spam (“Esteemed sir, I am requesting for urgent business relationship….”) and [...] Share Nah, this isn’t about how to screw up at work. Rather, former pro baseball player Morgan Ensberg has written a terrific story about the day he got fired (they call it “released” in baseball). People get fired. People have setbacks in their life. It’s not always their fault or within their control. What matters is what you [...] Share As most of the world knows, Tiger Woods was back playing golf for money this weekend. Sunday, I was at the airport waiting for my flight and found myself watching the finish of the Masters tournament with a bunch of other folks outside an airport bar. With about two hours to go in the tournament, the [...] Share Does your company “take the pulse” of employee satisfaction once a year, or perhaps twice? Does it do so at regular, scheduled times? Do all the managers scramble in the six weeks ahead of the survey to provide “morale” or “motivation”? (And do half of them spell it “moral”?) Does it work? The same goes for employee feedback [...] Share My kids are watching The Blind Side as I write this. I’m sort-of watching and writing, but I saw it some months ago when I took my nine-year-old son to see it in a tiny (75-seat) theater in Friday Harbor in Washington’s San Juan Islands. (The island in the San Juans where we have a place [...] Share There has long been academic debate as to who wrote the work attributed to William Shakespeare. (The word “academic” is important; see below.) Most recent attention has focused on Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. There is a whole cottage industry devoted to these so-called Oxfordians. I won’t go into all their arguments, but here’s a [...] Share Andrew Buck over at the Project Hut has a post today on Meeting Behaviors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It’s a good post, but it oversimplifies in a few areas. More specifically, it falls into the trap of “all meetings have the same purpose.” Ain’t true. Buck’s comments are dead on for many meetings, but there’s [...] Share Tom Peters (a/k/a TomPeters!) has a terrific post today about building great first-line managers. I won’t repeat all 20 points here, but I want to call out a few specifically because they are so often overlooked in lists of this sort: 5. New 1LMs should “shadow” senior 1LMs for a significant period of time. (“1LM” is [...] Share Two weeks later and I’m still trying to puzzle out The Who’s flaccid performance at the Super Bowl. It’s no wonder they didn’t play their first hit, My Generation, with it’s tagline, “Hope I die before I get old.” I didn’t expect them to play it… but I didn’t expect them to get seriously old, either. “Things [...] |
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