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NonsenseAtWork James McIntosh
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Boost your career and success by learning to deal with the nonsense of pleasing a boss, playing nice with colleagues, making subordinates productive, and living a life. (Why should you learn to deal with nonsense at work? Because nonsense stops you from being successful. Nonsense is always at work. It never stops. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is always some sense in nonsense, if you look for it. And if you are willing to look for it, time and again you will find that you can make the nonsense at work work for you.)
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Trigger Question #48: Did You Once Again Promise and Not Deliver?
The surest way to build trust has little to do with over promise or under promise. The surest way has to do with never. Never promise in the first place.
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Insight #311: Loyalty Makes You Passionate, but Executives Smug
That’s the difference between satisfaction and loyalty. Satisfaction keeps you happy, but passive. Loyalty makes you passionate and talkative. That’s a big difference.
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Trigger Question #47: Did Your Power Stop You From Listening?
What happens when you have power over others? It boosts your confidence. Yes, it does. And it boosts your ego as well. Even when you wield your power with a light and humane touch.
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Trigger Question #46: Why Did You Suffer Through Another Unproductive Meeting?
Meetings, meetings, bl... boring meetings. Are you also tired of unproductive meetings? If you are, then it probably is your fault. No, not the being tired bit. The being unproductive bit.
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Trigger Question #45: Did Your Caring Morph Into Caretaking?
It's your job, as a manager, to help the under-performers by giving them feedback, training, guidance, coaching, whatever. Up to a point.
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Insight #310: If You Need To Be Creative, Cheat a Little
Apparently, the link between creativity and dishonesty is a flexible attitude to rules. This implies that creative people ignore rules. Or that if you want to be creative, then ignore rules.