When I was doing the whole UMN HRIR thing — which kind of broadly regressed my life in some ways — one of the major companies that came to speak to us was Anheuser-Busch. I love beer, and St. Louis… Continue Reading
Almost regardless of the job level you have, if you’ve failed at something at work, someone has been up in your arse crack about it. “Why did that happen? I need answers!” People can be miserable, especially middle managers — who… Continue Reading
Even if you’re the most ‘Slave To The Temple Of Being Busy’ person in the world and/or are totally drowning in deliverables, you’d probably admit that Fridays aren’t that productive for you at work. I’ve been working in different types… Continue Reading
To a certain extent, process is everything at work. It needs to be there because people can’t just go off willy-nilly and do whatever the hell they want within their workflow, but the general idea of process is terrifying in the hands… Continue Reading
There are about 24.2 million hits on Google for “uninterrupted work time,” so it feels like something people are interested in and others are putting out content around. Makes sense, right? We’re all super busy, e-mail is the current generation’s… Continue Reading
Got that number from here, via a LinkedIn study that seems to look at 17 industries. I can’t decide if I think 11 percent is too low (what most people think) or too high (which might be logical). Productivity journalism is a… Continue Reading
I literally despise the concept of e-mail. Every stat you read about it is insanely depressing. It’s a major time suck, and it came along at a time and in such a way that you have a totally-split workforce —… Continue Reading
“Sales” is an insanely flummoxing concept to me. It’s pretty much everything at some level — because you can have the greatest product, the greatest process, or the greatest people in the world, right? But if no one can sell it and… Continue Reading