Category: Insights
Please Stop for Full Stops Under Question Marks
Insight #338: Do you often answer a question with a question? If so, you’re a question dodger. Question dodgers question back because they...
Who Got the Top Job, the Empty Desk or the Heavy Ego?
Insight #337: I once worked for a shipping line, one with proper ships, including container ships, bulk carriers and the two biggest ocean...
Why Nonsense at Work Makes You Happy
Insight #336: Did you know that nonsense is a natural, abundant, renewable resource? I realized this when I watched two dung beetles at...
Rightly Fearful of Thinking a Box Too Far
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Promote Your Time Frame To Be Promoted
Insight #334: Tell me, what is your time frame in your current job? You don’t know? Well then, maybe that’s why you are...
Be Less Visible To Trigger More Visible Success
Insight #333: Here’s another of my favorite leadership dilemmas. I think I’ll call it the Leadership Pyramid Paradox: To climb to the top,...
Get Unstuck by Getting Lost in Seeing More
Insight #332: Do you feel stuck? (Oh, special be the ones who don’t feel stuck now and then! Me? Never been that special.)...
The March of Madness in the Land of Free Speech
Insight #331: I arrived in the USA many years ago at the start of March madness. This did not bother me. March madness...
Let Spring Remind You That Growth Is Not Development
Insight #330: Be patient, people. Spring is coming. And with it comes plentiful growth, which, of course, you will have to cut and...
You Will Gain Power by Sharing Power To Empower Others
Insight #329: Many years ago, the then president of Zimbabwe ranted at a rally that the leader of the opposition in South Africa...
Don’t Meet if Your Meetings Don’t Need Pen and Paper
Insight #328: A funny thing happened at an executive meeting. Then it happened again. At other meetings. Suddenly, it was no longer funny....
How Abuse of Power Leads to the Loss of Power
Insight #327: Let’s assume you are in a position of power at work. Come on! If you are a team leader in any...
