341 episodes
NonsenseAtWork James McIntosh
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- Business
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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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 #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.
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Insight #308: The Catch-22 of Modern Democracy
Catch-22 ensures that citizens cannot be against their government. Even if they say they are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.