My husband loves to shop. The thing that will make him get annoyed quickly is how people use doors. Yes – I’m serious. Typically in most stores there are two doors next to each other. It makes him crazy that people would rather wait and make it annoying for someone else than open the other door. He is always the first one to open the second door and use it. And then others follow suit. So why does that happen? Granted, my husband is brilliant. However in this case I think it is something different. I think it has more to do with people thinking about where they want to go and what they want to do and not paying attention to how they do it. Someone else is using this door so I’ll use it too. But, it is faster, more efficient for everyone […] Continue reading
Management style – fear or collaboration
Let’s be honest – reality TV is there because it is cheap to make, easy to produce and people watch it. The more sensational the better. I get it. But I still get frustrated with certain programs. Â Recently the Food Network changed out their restaurant observation program for a new, edgier production. Â In the old version the people came in and put cameras into the restaurant, planted new staff and customers, and everyone evaluated what happened. Â Apparently people found it boring. Now, we have a “personality” who evaluates with the owner throughout the show. And he’s obnoxious. The reason I don’t like him is because he clearly believes the only way to motivate other people’s employees is through fear and intimidation. Â My hunch is if you talk to his actual staff back at his restaurant, he doesn’t treat them that way at all. And I […] Continue reading
Preparation Means Always Being There
Recently my computer died a horrible death. Of course it wasn’t on a Friday afternoon where I would then have all weekend to fix it – it happened on a Monday morning. Gee, thanks. I formatted the drive and began rebuilding. But the reality was, I couldn’t stop working to do the rebuild all at once. It reminded me of when my husband and I moved from our first apartment to our first house. We moved most of it ourselves over our last month of the lease agreement. While it was endless and exhausting, at the end of the month we had very few boxes left to unpack. Same thing happened here. I started by thinking about what I needed immediately. The beautiful thing was some systems just ran. My blog post was written and scheduled so that just happened, certain social media posts for […] Continue reading
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