Friday Humor: So Much to do, so Little Time

Best Practices – Aren’t

By Mike Myatt Believe it or not, there is a downside to anything labeled best practices. Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as best practices, I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear someone use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a [...]

Go Big or Go Home (5 Presenting Rules You Should Never Break)

by Manage Better Now I think this is just my week to sit through bad presentations. Earlier in the week I sat in on a presentation where the presenter committed what I would consider a presentation atrocity. We were in a large rectangular room, and the presenter was at one end, and the audience ran [...]

Dealing with Difficult People

By Nando Pelusi, Ph.D. When dealing with difficult people, our immediate urge is to jump to our own defense. Today, there are smarter moves to make when dealing with a tyrant. Some people go to extraordinary lengths to be difficult. Think of the diva actress whose on-set needs can never be met or the boss [...]

Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss

by Daniel Goleman Philip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs to write or edit a script, he sequesters himself in a small cottage behind his house where he gets [...]