There are phrases, quotes, whose meaning is immediately obvious and resonates like the obvious. Others tickle your intellect without at first sight meaning anything particularly interesting or brilliant, and you want to find a meaning for them, ideally brilliant, even though their author certainly had no ambitions in this respect.
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It's a good idea to demonstrate a certain “sense of urgency” in one's skills, something sought-after and valued by companies in a world where, as we keep repeating, everything keeps speeding up.
When urgency is counterproductive
This famous sense of urgency, which is in some people's DNA or an acquired skill...
My e-mail inbox and Linkedin mailbox are full of reminders from people who expect me to reply and are offended that I don't. At one point I told myself that it was time to make the effort to reply, until I realized that this lack of response was totally...
For many people, meetings are a plague, not because they're inherently unhelpful, but because in practice they're often an unproductive waste of time that ends up disrupting the flow of work.
One of the criticisms often levelled at them is that they never start on time and finish after the scheduled time. I've...
It goes without saying that email is the bane of the workplace, not necessarily because of its nature, but because of the way it is used. For years, we've done everything we could to eradicate it and offer alternative tools, but to no avail: it remains the work environment's center...
A manager gives an instruction, entrusts an assignment, and at the moment of presenting his work or debriefing his results, the employee comes forward quite confident, satisfied, if not more so, with the work he has done.
Then disaster strikes! Nothing goes right, it doesn't live up to expectations, and the employee...
Companies are aware of the problem of meetings, especially since the COVID crisis which, by generalizing remote meetings, questioned their efficiency even more.
One of the avenues explored by companies and managers is to "put pace" in the meetings so that the pace of the meetings matches the pace of...
There are people who are a little more addicted to control than others and no one can help it, they are like that. If this gives them certain qualities, it also has its reverse side: at some point they become a problem for themselves and for others.
The good news...
Managing others is good, but first of all it is better to start by managing oneself. Some of the anecdotes I heard during the confinement reminded me of a "self management" subject I've been wanting to talk about for a while: learning not to be stubborn when faced with...
Working remotely isn't just sitting at home in front of a computer and acting like you're at the office. It's not just a problem of pure distance, work or organization, it's also about making up for a number of shortcomings. In the end, the employee finds himself with challenges...
