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Have you heard the term “helicopter parent“? Well, I try not to be a “helicopter leader” (although I am sure I don’t always succeed). When mentoring a team of people, it can be tempting to do things for them if they aren’t getting things perfectly right, but that can distract you […] I'd like to personally say… I have just joined Slideshare and I received an automated welcome e-mail from “donotreply@slideshare.net”. The message said: Your SlideShare account is verified. And I’d like to personally welcome you to the World’s largest community for sharing presentations. It was “signed” by the CEO of Slideshare. Why do people […] I believe that when you hire a hound with a good pedigree and training, you ought to follow where it is going and not stop it so you can insist it explain why it uses one sniffing technique and not another. It seems to me that this is generally the case […]
Don't make me start kicking the walls! Years ago I was in a martial arts club in University College Dublin. My friends and I practised a form of Chinese martial arts which involves moves which, to the uninitiated, can seem pointless and somewhat silly. One day we were […] In the current economic climate, countries may be tempted to engage in isolationism, but there is also a personal form of isolationism which we ought to avoid.
It's easy to ignore someone who is just trying to do a job I was walking down a city street the […] I suspect morale is going to be a hot topic in the workplace in 2009 and I imagine the usual suspects will be blamed. Fear of redundancy, poor leadership, pay freezes, budget cutbacks, lack of advancement are some of the key factors. Employees often put the onus on the […] Almost everyone, at some point in their career, has reason to complain about their job. Only the naïve do it in public. Yesterday there was a report on the BBC news website about a teenager who was fired from her job because she described it on Facebook as “boring”. You can […] There is a good article on the BBC news website today that suggests most of us suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. Tiredness is a problem that seems to be largely ignored in the workplace. I know on occasion I have felt exhausted at work after a bad night’s sleep and if […] |