Independence and Self-Reliance Are Myths
Mar 30 Carolann Jacobs on March 30th, 2009
We in the United States value independence. It’s in our cultural dogma:
“I did it my way”
“I pulled myself up by my bootstraps” (What the heck is a bootstrap?)
“I stand on my own two feet”
Who among us does anything without a contribution from someone else?
Take this blog post as an example. Unless you set up the [...]
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Inspirational Workplace Q&A – I am losing my job, but I don’t know when…
Mar 20 Carolann Jacobs on March 20th, 2009
Q. At the end of last year, I received the top rating on my performance review. I asked if any layoffs were on the horizon, and my manager told me that it was possible, but my job was safe. I thought I’d be lower on the list for a reduction because I did so well. [...]
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Quit Allowing Conflict to Derail your Productivity and Start Using it to Create! Part 1
Feb 5 Carolann Jacobs on February 5th, 2009
I was chatting with a former work colleague the other day about her challenges implementing a Project Management Office (PMO). She’d come to me because I’ve had the experience multiple times in my former life, and it usually comes down to the same dynamic:
Camp A believes very strongly in the value of the PMO.
Camp [...]
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Is Performance Management Killing Performance?
Jan 29 Carolann Jacobs on January 29th, 2009
“Goals without a vision are just a task list.” ~ Ken Abrams, Top Coach Consulting
We set goals to take us somewhere greater, and without that strategic plan, we’re just chasing after to do’s on the road to nowhere.
It’s getting to be that time of year when many groups and individuals within groups are looking ahead [...]
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Top 3 Reasons Why Gift Giving is Good
Dec 23 Carolann Jacobs on December 23rd, 2008
I’ll start this with an admission: we abdicated on the holiday season this year. There are no latkes, no tree, no gifts, with the exception of those to non-profits such as Best Friends and the Heifer Project.
I didn’t miss any of it until today.
Maybe it was that the Hanukkah and Christmas decorations didn’t come down [...]
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