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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 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 I was floored this morning when I came across this post about project sponsors. Some choice excerpts: The problem with project sponsors is that they have got to where they are by climbing a very dirty greasy pole. They now have a privileged aerial view of the executive landscape…. The slightest hint or whiff [...] 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 Joel on Software — by ex-Microsoft veteran and Fog Creek CEO Joel Spolsky — has been my favorite tech-world blog by far for the past decade. In two weeks, he’s going off the air — for good, he says, in both senses of “for good.” Joel, you’ll be missed. I can think of no one in the tech [...] Share I was going to write this article, but a few days ago Ron Ashkenas at Harvard Business Press in effect wrote it for me. He nails four issues around believing that data = truth: Are we asking the right questions? 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 [...] |
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